Four Congress-NCP MLAs Resign, Set To Join BJP Ahead Of Polls

Mumbai: In huge drawback for Congress-NCP, around four legislators are set to resign from the State Assembly on Tuesday, amid talk of their joining the ruling BJP.

NCP MLAs Shivendrasinhraje Bhosale (Satara), Vaibhav Pichad (Akole) and Sandeep Naik (Airoli) and Congress MLA Kalidas Kolambkar (Naigaon) handed over their resignation letters separately to Speaker Haribhau Bagade at the state legislature building Vidhan Bhawan in south Mumbai.

Sources said that four legislators are likely to join the BJP on Wednesday. It will be the latest induction of the BJP in just two months before the Maharashtra assembly elections.

NCP’s Mumbai unit chief Sachin Ahir recently left the party to join Shiv Sena, while NCP leader and former Maharashtra minister Jaydutt Kshirsagar joined Shiv Sena in May.

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