I quit BJP only because of Fadnavis: Khadse (Ld)

Mumbai, Oct 21 : Quitting the Bharatiya Janata Party, after remaining in political wilderness for over four years, senior leader Eknath Khadse on Wednesday said he was “leaving only because of Devendra Fadnavis”.
Set to join the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi partner Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Friday, Khadse said that he was targeted by the then Chief Minister and current Leader of Opposition Fadnavis on trumped up charges which have still not been proven.
“My family and I have been humiliated for four years… I had worked hard to build up the party in the state for 40 years and this is what I had to undergo,” Khadse told mediapersons shortly after resigning as a BJP primary member.
Making it clear that he had no grouse against the BJP central leadership, Khadse said that “except state President Chandrakant Patil, no BJP leader has called me up so far”.
Forced to quit as minister in June 2016 following corruption charges when he was the de facto No. 2 in the cabinet headed by Fadnavis, he was denied a BJP ticket in the 2019 Assembly elections.
Khadse pointed out that since then (his quitting), “no party, including Shiv Sena, Nationalist Congress Party or Congress has ever demanded any investigations against me”, despite that he was humiliated for several years in the BJP.