Big blow! Pledging to work for better, NCP MP Udayanraje Bhosale, descendant of Shivaji Maharaj joins BJP

Mumbai, September 14: Flowing with the robust and engaging modules of Maharashtra state Assembly polls, NCP MP Udayanraje Bhosale on Saturday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in the presence of MHA Amit Shah and CM Devendra Fadnavis, with Shah asserting that the BJP-led alliance will come back to power in the state with three-fourths majority.

 

 

Bhosale, who draws his political influence due to his descendance from Maratha king Chhatrapati Shivaji's family, said that he agreed with the policies pursued by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and will work for Maharashtra now onwards as a BJP leader.

With this, the Satara MP has also quit his Lok Sabha membership to join the BJP. "It was a matter of happiness for BJP that a descendent of the Maratha king has joined it", said Shah adding that Bhosale's presence would help the party in the upcoming assembly elections.

 

The BJP, which had won 122 of the total 288 seats in the 2014 elections, will emerge stronger and its alliance will win three-fourths seats this time", he said. Shah also said that the BJP and its alliance was to receive even bigger support in the Assembly polls after it had decimated the Congress-NCP alliance in the recent Lok Sabha polls.

 

On the occasion, Fadnavis also voiced his party's happiness at Bhosale's decision to join it. He noted that Bhosale had lauded the Modi government's move to nullify Article 370, which accorded special status to Jammu and Kashmir. BJP working president J P Nadda and general secretary Bhupender Yadav, who is his party's in-charge for the state polls, were also present on the occasion.