{"id":501740,"date":"2024-02-13T14:02:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T08:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=501740"},"modified":"2024-02-13T14:15:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T08:45:20","slug":"ashok-chavan-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/ashok-chavan-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan joins BJP, day after quitting Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan, who quit the Congress on Monday, became a member of the BJP on Tuesday at the party\u2019s state headquarters in Mumbai. In the presence of Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrakant Bawankule and Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis, Chavan joined the saffron party.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chavan might submit his nomination tomorrow and is expected to receive a Rajya Sabha ticket. The BJP is probably going to make an announcement this evening, a source said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While taking the oath, Chavan said, today, he is going to\u00a0join the BJP at its Mumbai office. He is starting a new political career today, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">VIDEO | Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis welcomes former CM and ex-Congress leader Ashok Chavan into BJP.<br><br>(Full video available on PTI Videos &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n147TvrpG7\">https:\/\/t.co\/n147TvrpG7<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mfhoAH5L4I\">pic.twitter.com\/mfhoAH5L4I<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PTI_News\/status\/1757311144119959727?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 13, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When asked if he had heard from senior Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi or Rahul Gandhi, Chavan avoided answering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former chief minister insisted that he hasn&#8217;t asked any Congress leaders or supporters to accompany him on his BJP induction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis said at a press conference that it is a matter of happiness that a senior Maharashtra leader, who has been elected to the Maharashtra Assembly and the Lok Sabha and has worked twice as CM, has joined the BJP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the Opposition reacted sharply to Chavan&#8217;s departure as well. Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray, claimed that the BJP is changing into a Congress occupied BJP. Thackeray expressed shock at Chavan&#8217;s resignation and emphasised the possible fallout for the welfare of state farmers should leaders put their own interests ahead of their constituents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ashok Chavan, the son of former Home Minister Shankarrao Chavan, was recently added to the Congress Working Committee (CWC). He served as the Lok Sabha representative for Nanded in 1987 and 2014. BJP&#8217;s&nbsp;Prataprao Patil Chikhalikar&nbsp;defeated him in the 2019 election. In 1999 and 2004, Mudkhed Assembly constituency went to Chavan, and later he won Bhokar in 2009 and 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan, who quit the Congress on Monday, became a member of the BJP on Tuesday at the party\u2019s state headquarters in Mumbai. In the presence of Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrakant Bawankule and Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis, Chavan joined the saffron party.&nbsp; Chavan might submit his nomination tomorrow and is expected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":501745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,125714],"tags":[161975,161977,86,111,161974,161976,255],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2024\/02\/13140037\/2024_2largeimg_1386668934-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501740"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=501740"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=501740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->