Ex-mla Kunal patil resigns from congress, set to join bjp
MUMBAI, July 1 -- After Sangram Thopte, another former Congress MLA, Kunal Patil, is set to join the BJP. He resigned from the primary membership of the grand old party on Monday. His induction in the ruling party will be held on Tuesday.
Patil is a two-term MLA from Dhule Rural assembly constituency and was the working president of Maharashtra Congress.
He comes from a family of Congress loyalists. He is the son of late Congress stalwart Rohidas Patil, who was a minister for several years in successive Congress governments in the past. Rahul Gandhi visited him at his residence when he was unwell in March last year.
Kunal Patil's grandfather Chudaman Patil was also a three-term MP from Dhule between 1962-71.
"I have resigned from the primary membership of Congress and will be joining BJP tomorrow,"said Kunal Patil. "My constituency workers believe that development is the prime focus of BJP and they should also become a part of it."...
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