Senior NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal, angry after not getting a ministerial post, on Tuesday accused party chief Ajit Pawar of neglecting him and not obeying him. included in the cabinet Even though Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis was willing to include him.
After Bhujbal left Nagpur for his hometown Nashik on Monday, the first day of the winter session of the Maharashtra Assembly, he told reporters that Maratha social activist Manoj Jarange-Patil did not have a berth in the cabinet because of his fight and standing. For the OBC community. When asked about his future work style, he quoted a line from a song sung by Kishore Kumar and said, “Let’s see. Jahan nahi rahna, wah nahi rahna.
On Tuesday, Bhujbal said, “I am not your plaything who follows everything blindly… Chhagan Bhujbal is not that kind of person… Chief Minister (Devendra Fadnavis) wanted me in the cabinet. I also verified it and found that he was adamant about including me in the cabinet. But I was left. Now, who refused, I must find out.”
“But one thing is certain that in every party the chief takes a decision on this. Like Devendra Fadnavis takes decisions in BJP, and Eknath Shinde takes decisions in Shiv Sena. Similarly, Ajit Pawar takes the decisions of our group,” said Bhujbal, indicating that Ajit Pawar had dropped his name.
Bhujbal, who won the Yewla seat in the recently concluded Maharashtra assembly elections, said his supporters from across the state would gather in Nashik on Wednesday and he would decide his future course after consulting everyone.
He said that he was not worried about not getting the ministerial post but the party ignored him. “He (Ajit Pawar) asked me to contest in Lok Sabha. Union Minister Amit Shah also said. I completed all preparations but my name was not announced for more than a month so I opted out. Then when I wanted to go to Rajya Sabha before assembly elections, I decided to contest assembly elections. It was said that the Rajya Sabha offer came to me, which I rejected. How can I resign after one or two years? I want to go to the Rajya Sabha, but not now,” said Bhujbal, who met his supporters in Nashik.
The senior NCP leader said that he had not spoken to Ajit Pawar since the formation of the Maharashtra Cabinet and once again claimed that he was kept out because of his opposition to Jarange-Patil.
Speaking about Bhujbal’s displeasure, senior NCP leader Praful Patel said he wants to go to the Rajya Sabha. “We have expressed our willingness to send him to the Rajya Sabha,” Patel said.
Responding to Praful Patel’s statement, Bhujbal said, “I want to ask them, am I a small toy in your hands? You can ask me to go to Rajya Sabha whenever you want, you can ask me to sit whenever you want, stand whenever you want, contest elections whenever you want.”
Chhagan Bhujbal said he “expressed his desire to go to the Rajya Sabha six months ago with my seniors”. “But then they rejected me. They told me, ‘Now we are going to send Sunetra Pawar to the Rajya Sabha’. I had no objection to that. Then they decided to send Makarand Patil’s brother to the Rajya Sabha. Even then, I raised the Rajya Sabha issue. But the seniors rejected my name. did
“They (Patel and Pawar) said, ‘We have given our word to Makarand Patil’. Then I was told, ‘Contest the Assembly elections. It is difficult to win in Yewla constituency without you. If you contest, your workers will work with zeal across the state. In that too, I I did not object. After that, my workers and I worked hard and now I have won the assembly elections. Now they say to me, ‘We made Makarand Patil the minister.’ We are asking his brother to resign and we will send you to the Rajya Sabha. he asked.
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