Mumbai: In a jolt to the Bharatiya Janata Party in Maharashtra, its legislator Dhananjay Munde, nephew of senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde, quit the party to join the Nationalist Congress Party yesterday.
Dhananjay Munde, member of the legislative council, also handed over his resignation letter to council chairman Shivajirao Deshmukh.
He formally joined the NCP and is likely to be fielded opposite his uncle Goinath Munde, the deputy leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha, from the Beed parliamentary constituency in the next general elections.
In his reaction, state BJP president Devendra Fadnavis made light of the development. “A person who was not loyal to his own uncle, what will he be to (NCP chief) Sharad Pawar,” he said.
Interacting with media persons later, Dhananjay Munde said he was working for the NCP since the past six months after dissociating himself from the BJP over the last 18 months.
IANS
