{"id":327829,"date":"2020-10-21T09:15:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T09:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=327829"},"modified":"2020-10-21T09:15:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T09:15:11","slug":"former-minister-and-senior-maharashtra-leader-eknath-khadse-resigns-from-bjp-to-join-ncp-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/former-minister-and-senior-maharashtra-leader-eknath-khadse-resigns-from-bjp-to-join-ncp-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Former minister and senior Maharashtra leader Eknath Khadse resigns from BJP, to join NCP this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/former-minister-and-senior-maharashtra-leader-eknath-khadse-resigns-from-bjp-to-join-ncp-this-week\/eknath-khadse\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-327830\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-327830 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/eknath-khadse-300x258.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/eknath-khadse-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/eknath-khadse-488x420.jpg 488w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/eknath-khadse.jpg 645w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a>Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Maharashtra minister Eknath Khadse on Wednesday resigned from all posts of the party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The announcement was first made by Maharashtra minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Jayant Patil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Jayant Patil also informed that Khadse will join the NCP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">&#8220;Eknath Khadse, a senior BJP leader has left the party. He has resigned from the BJP. Therefore, on October 23 he will be joining the NCP,&#8221; said Patil. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">&#8220;The NCP has got a learned leader in the form of Eknath Khadse. Their experience will definitely benefit the party. Khadse Saheb was being treated unfairly in BJP for the last few years,&#8221; Patil added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Khadse has been disgruntled and unhappy with the BJP after he was forced to resign in 2016 on corruption charges. He had expressed his disappointment in public on various forums. He was also denied a ticket in the 2019 assembly elections. Khadse had earlier indicated that there were offers from other parties.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Maharashtra minister Eknath Khadse on Wednesday resigned from all posts of the party. The announcement was first made by Maharashtra minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Jayant Patil. Jayant Patil also informed that Khadse will join the NCP. &#8220;Eknath Khadse, a senior BJP leader has left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":327830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[453,13611,13612,1467,1890],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327832,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327829\/revisions\/327832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/327830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}