The supporters of Ganesh Naik in Navi Mumbai and Mira-Bhayander offered a kick at the BJP's state office in Mumbai and submitted their resignations. So, with little time left for campaigning, the rift in the Mahayuti has come to the fore in the Chief Minister's stronghold.
After the advertisement of Naresh Mhaske's candidature from Thane on Wednesday, Naik held a meeting at his office in Khairane to decide the unborn course of action. Naik's sympathizers raised taglines against the chief minister and Mhaske. When the meeting was going on, taglines were raised in front of Pratap Sarnaik and Mhaske who came to meet Naik and the office liaisons refused to meet them.
Naik also spoke to them in his special cell. Sar naik and Mhaske also went back through the aft door. Former corporator Netra Shirke, a loyal supporter of Naik, took a veiled dig at the chief minister, saying, "Dropping the nomination is like sitting in a police station and mowing down Navi Mumbai.
After this, all the office liaisons reached the state BJP headquarters in Mumbai and submitted their adoptions. further than 500 office liaisons called on the National Co-ordinating Minister Sajeesh G. Navi Mumbai BJP vice-president Ravindra Ithape told Loksatta that he has submitted his abdication. He also claimed that Naresh Mhaske would lose by at least two lakh votes in the chief minister's constituency.
BJP MLA from Belapur Manda Mhatre still, claimed that the Navi Mumbai BJP was behind Mhaske. Naik was among those who abnegated. There's no reason to suppose that the entire BJP is against Mhaske, "she said. Naik's sympathizers offered a sit-left at the BJP's office in Mumbai, demanding that the Thane seat be given to the saffron party.