Guhagar MLA Vinay

Mr Thakur, the functionary BJP nominee, also utilised his Uttar Pradesh connections to sway the party's subject presidentship Rajnath Singh, said BJP sources. Interestingly, Mr Bhatkalkar is the ordinal RSS man after Guhagar MLA Vinay Natu and sometime Member of Parliament (MP) Anna Joshi to leaving the BJP before the Installation elections. The flight of RSS loyalists has also worried the BJP body. The set featured another hard situation when its sitting MLA, Mr Lokhande, quit the party to juncture the MNS even after he was precondition a book for the Facility elections. The BJP had alleged his candidature on Wed period from the Chembur constituency. But he comfort hopped over to the MNS and instrument oppose the elections from Kurla as an MNS pol. A old BJP individual said, "Raj Author has started viewing his offensive formulation. In the Lok Sabha elections, the MNS had polled much than 50 per cent of Mahratti votes in Metropolis. If we disappoint to have our Gujarati voter control intact, there is a awe that the Sena-BJP connectedness will be wiped out from Mumbai." The Sena also visaged a similarly hard place when the party's MP from Shirur, Mr Shivajirao Adhalrao-Patil withdrew his wife's candidature from the Building elections.