Mumbai. After Ashok Chavan in Maharashtra, Congress suffered another big blow when former minister and state executive Basavaraj Patil resigned from the party on Monday. There are speculations that after resigning from Congress, Basavaraj Patil may join Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday.
Basavaraj Patil’s resignation is a big loss for Congress because he was known as a big face of the party in Marathwada.Earlier, in mid-February, senior Congress leader and former Chief Minister of the state Ashok Chavan (65) had also left the party and joined the ruling BJP, after which the BJP made him a candidate in the Rajya Sabha elections from Maharashtra and on February 20, he was elected unopposed. Was declared.
Lingayat community leader Basavaraj Patil is originally from Murum of Umargya in Osmanabad taluk. In political circles, Basavaraj Patil is known as the son of former Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil Chakurkar. He has been a Congress loyalist and was elected to the Assembly from Ausa constituency. He had won elections from Ausa twice in 2009 and 2014
In the very first term of the MLA, Congress had given him the post of Minister of State. However, after his defeat to Abhimanyu Pawar in the 2019 assembly elections, there was talk that Basavaraj Patil had been sidelined to some extent in the Congress.
In such a situation, it is now being said that Basavaraj Patil is waiting for a call from BJP and it is very possible that he may also announce his joining BJP on Tuesday.
