Ashok Chavan joining BJP not surprising: Sharad Pawar-led NCP

In a setback to the Congress ahead of Lok Sabha elections, former Maharashtra chief minister Chavan on Monday tendered his resignation from the party.

Former Congress leader Ashok Chavan joined the BJP on Tuesday. (PTI)

The Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Tuesday said that former Congress veteran Ashok Chavan joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was not surprising, but rued that certain leaders who have the power and capacity to fight the saffron party are actually succumbing to its pressures.

In a setback to the Congress ahead of Lok Sabha elections, former Maharashtra chief minister Chavan on Monday tendered his resignation from the party. On Tuesday, he joined the ruling BJP at an event in Mumbai.

NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) spokesperson Clyde Crasto said Chavan is another example of those individuals, who when they are under the lens, the BJP puts pressure on them.
“They succumb to it and then eventually join the party,” he said alluding to the Adarsh scam which cost Chavan his chief ministerial berth in 2010.

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Chavan is an accused in the Adarsh housing society scam wherein a 31-storey posh building in south Mumbai was constructed allegedly on land owned by the Defence Ministry without getting the requisite permissions and clearances. “It (Chavan joining the BJP) is not a surprise,” Crasto said.

“There are certain leaders, who have the power and capacity to fight the BJP, are actually giving up and succumbing to their pressures,” Crasto added.

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