Mumbai, 18 Mar (HS):- former MLA from Gangakhed Sitaram Ghandat entered the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday at BJP’s regional unit office. Regional Working

President Ravindra Chavan, senior party leaders Babanrao Lonikar, Navnath Ban, and others were present.

With Ghandat a large number of leaders from Parbhani district also

embraced BJP. The event was held under the guidance of Minister of State

Meghana Sakore and Babanrao Lonikar.

Parbhani’s former Zilla Parishad President Prasad Budhwant of NCP

(Sharad Pawar), Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi’s leader Suresh Fad, Anant Deshmukh,

Sarpanch Gajanan Kangne, Ramesh Gite Partur (Mantha) leader Vaijnath Borade,

Nitin Rathod and ten corporators were prominent among those who entered BJP on

the occasion.

Ratnagiri: Many leaders of Shiv Sena (UBT) from Ratnagiri also entered the BJP.

Rakesh Salvi, Sandip Surve, Deepak Gawde, Datta Dhadshi were prominent among

them.

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Some leaders from NCP (Sharad Pawar) also

embraced the BJP on Tuesday. Dairy Development Minister Atul Save led them to the BJP.

Abhishek Dehmukh, Vijay Nikalje, Ankush Jadhav, Suresh Patil, Firoz Qureshi, and Aslam Sharif were prominent among them.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Ajay Vasant Mardikar