Satyajit Patankar reminds Shambhuraj Desai of ‘betrayal' with Sena
Kolhapur: Satyajit Patankar, a recent defector from NCP (SP) to the
BJP
, has publicly accused
Shiv Sena
leader and minister Shambhuraj Desai of "betrayal".
Patankar claims that the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) will help him restore "cultured politics" to the Patan assembly segment, a thinly veiled jab at Desai, whose father, Balasaheb, was once challenged by Patankar's father, Vikramsinh, about four decades ago.
A visibly angered Desai retorted that the rivalry began when Vikramsinh Patankar rebelled against his father.
Desai's supporters further circulated messages highlighting that Patankar was welcomed by a junior BJP leader, unlike Desai's own welcome to Shiv Sena by its late supremo Balasaheb Thackeray.
After returning to Patan, the newly-joined BJP leader Patankar was asked about the comparison.
"How did you treat the party whose top leader welcomed you to join.
How did you leave the party? After that, how did you reach Guwahati via Surat? What was the reason to betray a party that welcomed you?" he retorted.
The statement by Patankar is bound to continue to fuel the feud between the two key Mahayuti allies — which are the BJP and Shiv Sena. Desai has said that he will meet chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and his party leader, deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde, and speak his mind about letting Patankar join the BJP.
Shambhuraj Desai was among the first batch of the MLAs who had joined the Eknath Shinde-led rebellion, which led to the downfall of the Mahavikas Aghadi govt in the year 2022.
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