India, Dec. 21 -- Former MLA Sandeep Naik on Saturday rejoined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), marking his return to the party more than a year after his exit and ahead of the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) elections.

Naik, son of Maharashtra forest minister Ganesh Naik, formally rejoined the BJP in the presence of state BJP president Ravindra Chavan. He later met chief minister Devendra Fadnavis to discuss a development roadmap for Navi Mumbai.

Naik had quit the BJP in October 2024 after the party denied him a ticket from the Belapur assembly constituency, choosing to renominate sitting MLA Manda Mhatre. At the time, he resigned as the BJP's Navi Mumbai district president and joined the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadcha...