Many BJP-Sena poll ticket aspirants in touch with NCP: Patil

 Np News 24 Nagpur: Maharashtra NCP President Jayant Patil said that many assembly polls  aspirants from the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance are in touch with the NCP.  Patil did not reveal their names.  He said that Cheif Minister Devendra Fadnavis is using ‘saam daam dand bhed’ (one using all means possible to achieve a goal) to win the State Assembly election are due in the next few months.

Patil was speaking to the media in Nagpur during NCP’s ‘Shiv Swarajya Yatra’, a public outreach programme launched by the opposition party ahead of the Assembly polls.  Patil said, “People from our party are going to the BJP and Shiv Sena. But, many in those parties who have done preparation for three to four years and want to contest elections are in contact with me.”

“But we can not reveal their names now because Devendra Fadnavis is pursuing (the politics of) saam, daam, dand and bhed in Maharashtra. Hence, we will reveal their names at appropriate time,” said Patil.
A number of leaders from the NCP and Congress have joined either the BJP or Shiv Sena recently ahead of the State Assembly polls.