Some BJP MLAs are keen to join NCP (SP): Anil Deshmukh

Former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh on Thursday claimed that some BJP MLAs are keen on joining the Sharad Pawarled Nationalist Congress PartyDeshmukh asserted the switch to the NCP SP has started in the form of the excorporators referring to the resignation of Ajit Pawarled NCPs PimpriChinchwad unit chief Ajit Gavhane and two former corporators reported PTISpeaking to reporters after a press conference in Nagpur the senior NCP SP leader claimed that some MLAs from the BJP are also interested in being a part of his party as they are disappointed after not getting representation in the governmentMLAs from the Ajit Pawarled NCP will also return However Sharad Pawar will decide who will be taken into NCP SP he saidResponding to the question of whether Ajit Pawar is one of them Deshmukh said He is making his own party Let him expand it reported PTIAccording to the PTI report Sharad Pawar said on Wednesday that a decision on the potential entry of any leader in his party will be a collective one Pawar refused to confirm whether Ajit Pawar would be accommodated if he chose to returnAjit Pawar split the NCP founded by Sharad Pawar in July 2023 when he led some MLAs loyal to him to join the Eknath Shindeled Mahayuti government also comprising the Shiv Sena and BJPAs per the PTI report speculations about unrest in the Ajit Pawar faction started after it lost three of the four seats it contested in the recent Lok Sabha elections Meanwhile the Sharad Pawarled NCP won eight out of ten constituencies it contested in alliance with Congress and the Sena UBTAddressing a press conference in Nagpur Deshmukh on Thursday asked the state government to make public the report of a commission that probed into bribery allegations against him and warned that he would move court if that didnt happen reported PTIThe leader reportedly accused the Maharashtra government of internationally holding back the report of the Chandiwal Commission which he claimed has given him the clean chitAs per the PTI report Deshmukh told reporters that while serving as the states home minister former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh had made accusations against him In response to this Deshmukh himself had asked the then chief minister Uddhav Thackeray to initiate an inquiryThe state had formed a commission under retired Justice of the Bombay High court Kailash Chandiwal who submitted a 1400page report after 11 months two years ago he said reported PTIDespite several requests the report has neither been made public nor placed before the state legislature so far said notedAccording to the news agency report he claimed that several newspapers in Maharashtra had reported that the Chandiwal Commission had cleared him of any wrongdoingWith inputs from PTI