Patole should resign over MLC poll candidate debacle: Bawankule

Nagpur: BJP general secretary Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Saturday demanded MPCC president Nana Patole’s resignation following flip-flop over its MLC candidate for the local authority constituency elections.
Launching a scathing attack against the Congress, Bawankule who was BJP contestant for the polls, said Patole came under pressure of two ministers from the city for withdrawing support to Ravindra Bhoyar, who switched over from BJP to Congress.
“Due to the two ministers, the MPCC chief had to change his decision at the last moment. It shows that he is incapable of leading the grand old party as he cannot take his own decisions. Due to him, the party faced acute embarrassment for changing an imported candidate and supporting an independent one. He lost the right to lead the party,” Bawankule told the media.
Patole couldn’t be contacted for comments on the issue.
Expressing confidence that he will win the elections, the former power minister said BJP had 318 votes and no other candidate could have won the polls. “All votes beyond this figure would be of Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA). There is no point in saying that Bhoyar was sent as a Trojan horse to the MVA camp. He himself went here and decided to remain with the party,” he said.