Devendra Fadnavis Rejects Reports Of Eknath Khadse Leaving BJP

Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Eknath Khadse has quit the party and will be joining Nationalist Congress Party, the latter’s leader and state minister Jayant Patil said on Wednesday, 21 October.

“Eknath Khadse promoted BJP in Maharashtra over years. I've been informed that BJP leader Eknath Khadse has resigned from his party. We've decided to give him an entry in NCP. He will be formally inducted into NCP at 2 pm on Friday,” Patil said, according to ANI.

There had been speculation of Khadse quitting the BJP for a while but former Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday had dismissed it, saying there are talks every day of such kind of "muhurat".