India, March 13 -- The bickering within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Beed district, which has been in the news for all the wrong reasons over the last three months, has come to the fore. The party's OBC face and state environment minister Pankaja Munde has finally spoken out against MLA Suresh Dhas, who had criticised her in connection with the sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh murder case.

Munde, whose cousin Dhananjay Munde was forced to resign from the Maharashtra cabinet earlier this month over his links with the alleged mastermind behind the murder, has requested the BJP leadership to warn Dhas not to bring up her name in connection with the case. On Wednesday, she said that despite being the BJP's national secretary, her party c...