NEW DELHI: Stung by the poor Maharashtra Lok Sabha election results, BJP faced another blow as ex-Union minister Suryakanta Patil resigned from the primary membership of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday.
“I have learned a lot in the last 10 years, I am thankful to the party,” Suryakanta Patil said after quitting the BJP.
In her resignation letter, she stated that she tried to seek personal appointment with state BJP chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule, but could not get an appointment.
The resignation of Suryakanta Patil, who started her political career with Jan Sangh in 1970, came as a rude shock for the party.
A couple of years later, she switched to Congress and remained a corporator eight years.
In 1980, Patil first got elected as MLA from Hadgaon assembly constituency, followed by Congress nominating her to Rajya Sabha in 1986. In 1991, 1998 and 2004, she was elected as Lok Sabha MP.
She switched over to NCP in 2009 and contested LS elections and lost. In 2014, she joined BJP and had been associated with the party for a decade.
Meanwhile, tension soared in Mahayuti alliance as newly-appointed Rajya Sabha MP Ashok Chavan’s absence from a BJP review meeting on Saturday sparked rumours.
However, Chavan said that he had informed the party that he would be in Mumbai for work.
Chavan told TOI, “I am in Mumbai for following-up on certain development works, which are to be included in the budgetary provisions. I have already communicated the same to my party and the teams reaching Nanded.”
The review meeting was held by former union minister Raosaheb Danve, who too lost from Jalna to Congress candidate Dr Kalyan Kale. Danve was accompanied by BJP state general secretary Sanjay Kenekar.
Chavan said that though a team led by Danve had been to Nanded on Saturday, it is the team led by minister Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil, which has been tasked to reach Nanded, carry out the analysis and submit a report to the party leadership.
“I have learned a lot in the last 10 years, I am thankful to the party,” Suryakanta Patil said after quitting the BJP.
In her resignation letter, she stated that she tried to seek personal appointment with state BJP chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule, but could not get an appointment.
The resignation of Suryakanta Patil, who started her political career with Jan Sangh in 1970, came as a rude shock for the party.
A couple of years later, she switched to Congress and remained a corporator eight years.
In 1980, Patil first got elected as MLA from Hadgaon assembly constituency, followed by Congress nominating her to Rajya Sabha in 1986. In 1991, 1998 and 2004, she was elected as Lok Sabha MP.
She switched over to NCP in 2009 and contested LS elections and lost. In 2014, she joined BJP and had been associated with the party for a decade.
Meanwhile, tension soared in Mahayuti alliance as newly-appointed Rajya Sabha MP Ashok Chavan’s absence from a BJP review meeting on Saturday sparked rumours.
However, Chavan said that he had informed the party that he would be in Mumbai for work.
Chavan told TOI, “I am in Mumbai for following-up on certain development works, which are to be included in the budgetary provisions. I have already communicated the same to my party and the teams reaching Nanded.”
The review meeting was held by former union minister Raosaheb Danve, who too lost from Jalna to Congress candidate Dr Kalyan Kale. Danve was accompanied by BJP state general secretary Sanjay Kenekar.
Chavan said that though a team led by Danve had been to Nanded on Saturday, it is the team led by minister Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil, which has been tasked to reach Nanded, carry out the analysis and submit a report to the party leadership.