Pimpri-Chinchwad: Ajit Gavhane Makes Big Statement After Breaking Ranks With Ajit Pawar Camp

Mumbai: A day after resigning from Ajit Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), unit chief Ajit Gavhane from Pimpri-Chinchw me a big statement saying that he was unhappy with development done under ‘BJP-ruled PPMC (Pimpri-Chinchw Municipal Corporation)' in constituencies across state. 

"If you look at Pimpri-Chinchw, both Ajit da and Pawar sahab h contributed to its development. But since 2017, Bharatiya Janata Party has been ruling PPMC [Pimpri-Chinchw Municipal Corporation]. development work here was done in a wrong way, especially if you look at or constituencies. re was rampant corruption here and sitting MLA is responsible for it."

This comes as Gavhane submitted his resignation along with or leers including Rahul Bhosale, Pankaj and Yash Sane have also resigned.

"Along with me, corporators like Rahul Bhosale and Pankaj and Yash Sane have resigned."

When asked if he is willing to contest for upcoming Assembly elections, Gavhane said, "Yes, I am interested in contesting Vidhan Sabha elections."

This comes as on Wednesday, Gavhane along with 24 leers joined Shar Pawar's NCP (SP).

"We have all joined Shar Pawar's party since believe only party which can take Pimpri-Chinchw and rest of Maharashtra forward is NCP (SP)."

Pimpri-Chinchw has long been considered Ajit Pawar's strong bastion, with his influence dominating local politics for almost three deces.

Until 2017, Ajit's party (n undivided NCP) controlled civic body. However, departure of se leers could potentially trigger a wave of defections from Ajit Pawar's faction in region.

(Inputs from ANI)