Senior BJP leader Eknath Khadse will join the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Friday, Maharashtra minister Jayant Patil said today.
“He (Khadse) will join NCP at 2 pm on Friday…this will strengthen the NCP,” Jayant Patil, the state NCP chief, told reporters.
Eknath Khadse, who was a minister in the BJP government in Maharashtra in 2016, has been upset since he was made to resign over allegations of corruption.
There had been speculation in the last few days that he may quit the BJP and join the Sharad Pawar-led party.