Udayanraje Bhosale wants to sell shivaji's land: NCP

Mumbai: The Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Saturday alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had lured its member of Parliameny (MP), Udayanraje Bhosale, by promising him the permission to sell properties inherited from Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.

NCP spokesperson Nawab Malik claimed that Mr Bhosale joined the BJP to obtain the requisite permission for the sale of properties inherited from Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. Mr Malik said that if the BJP had lured Mr Bhosale in a bid to sell the properties inherited from Chhatr-apati Shivaji Maharaj, the NCP would not allow the BJP attempt to succeed. The legacy of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj must remain intact and if anyone dared to touch it, the NCP would oppose the move and ask people to join the protest.

Mr Malik alleged, “We have some information. Modi Saheb has deployed some people to see that royals join the BJP.”

Mr Malik said that Mr Bhosale had been a BJP legislator and minister before 1999. In 1999, the NCP had defeated him in the Maharashtra Assembly election, after which, he met Sharad Pawar through his mother. The BJP had made him a MP but he indulged in anti-party activities. He met Mr Pawar through his mother and obtained a NCP ticket and got re-elected.

Mr Malik said that Satara was the bastion of the NCP hence Mr Bhosale would be defeated in the bypoll. “We will make him remember 1999’s defeat. The people of Satara district know him. We will win this bypoll and defeat him,” he said.