BJP to hold discussions with Khadse, clarifies Mungantiwar after former meets CM Thackeray

BJP leer Sudhir Mungantiwar has said that party will hold discussions with Eknath Khse as latter met Maharashtra CM and Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray. A meeting of BJP core committee, attended by former Chief Minister Devendra Fnavis, state president Chandrakant Patil and or leers was held in Mumbai on Tuesday amid reports that Khse was upset with party leers.

'Whoever worked against party will be expelled'

"We decided in today's meeting to hold discussions with Eknath Khse Ji, his concerns will be dressed. Khse Ji has submitted some evidence (alleging BJP workers worked against party in elections), whoever has worked against party will be expelled,' said BJP leer Sudhir Mungantiwar after meeting.  He also clarified that Pankaja Munde h skipped day's meeting after taking permission from state party chief. "Pankaja Munde did t attend today's meeting with permission of state party president," he ded.

development came soon after, BJP's Eknath Khse on Tuesday met Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray at Vidhan Bhavan in Mumbai. "I am t going to join Shiv Sena... I am t upset with BJP, I am just upset with two-three leers of BJP," Khse said after meeting with Thackeray. Earlier on Tuesday, Khse h said that he has audio and video evidence against party cres who have worked against party during recent Maharashtra Assembly elections. He h said that se are leers, who were responsible for defeat of party candidates in recent assembly polls.

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Khse-Pawar meeting

Earlier, BJP, who has been unhappy with party’s leership for quite some time, on Monday met with Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Shar Pawar in Delhi. Reportedly, two held a closed-door meeting for around half-an-hour at Pawar’s residence. Replying to Khse-Pawar meeting, NCP leer Nawab Malik said that meeting was t political. "It was all about farmers and agrarian crisis in Maharashtra," Malik ded. Khse, who was forced to resign from Devendra Fnavis’s cabinet in 2016 over graft allegations, has been steily sidelined within party ever since. He was among few senior leers who were denied a ticket to contest state Assembly polls in October this year.

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(With ANI inputs)