Congress MLC Pradnya Satav likely to join BJP in Maharashtra

In a setback to the Congress in Maharashtra party MLC Pradnya Satav is likely to join the ruling BJP on Thursday reported news agency PTISatav the wife of Congress leader late Rajiv Satav who was a close aide of Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi is a twotime MLC Her term ends in 2030Rajiv Satav was an MP from Hingoli and earlier represented the Kalamnuri assembly segment in the districtMaharashtra Congress president Harshwardhan Sapkal said Pradnya Satav has been incommunicado since Wednesday morning after media reports about her switching sides surfaced reported PTICongress leader in the legislative council Satej Patil said the party made her a legislator and he personally feels she will not take any drastic step reported PTIBJP media coordinator Navnath Ban said some fresh inductions will take place into the party on Thursday reported PTIExSena UBT corporator Tejasvee Ghosalkar joins BJPMeanwhile former Shiv Sena UBT corporator Tejasvee Ghosalkar joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in Mumbai on Monday ahead of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC pollsTejasvee Ghosalkar who had served as the Sena UBT womens wing head in the Dahisar assembly constituency in north Mumbai is the daughterinlaw of former MLA Vinod GhosalkarHer husband Abhishek Ghosalkar was shot dead in early 2024 during a Facebook Live allegedly by local resident Morris Noronha Abhishek was also a former corporator of the BMCShe joined the BJP on Monday in the presence of its Mumbai chief Ameet Satam and party MLC Pravin DarekarLater speaking to reporters Tejasvee Ghosalkar said she had worked diligently in the Shiv Sena UBT and would now work harder in her new partyI will accept any responsibility given to me by the party There are many things I wish to say but I cannot do so at the moment she saidShe also expressed disappointment over the slow pace of the investigation into the murder of her husbandThe CBI probe into my husbands murder is moving at a slow pace I hope it will be completed at the earliest she saidIn September last year the Bombay High Court handed over the probe into the murder to the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI underlining certain lapses and loose ends in the police probeTejasvee Ghosalkar was corporator of the then undivided Shiv Sena from 2017 to 2022 She had quit from her posts in the Uddhav Thackerayled Sena UBT citing personal reasonsDifferences surfaced between her and her fatherinlaw during the state assembly elections last year as both wanted to contest from Dahisar Vinod Ghosalkar eventually contested the seat on the SenaUBT ticket but lost to BJPs Manisha ChaudharyThe schedule for polls to various civic bodies including the cashrich BMC has not yet been announcedElections to the local bodies in Maharashtra are to be completed by January 31 2026 as per the Supreme Courts orderWith inputs from PTI