Maharashtra: Beed NCP leader Yogesh Kshirsagar joins BJP

NCP leader Yogesh Kshirsagar joined the BJP on Sunday at a function in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar in the presence of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and state minister Pankaja MundeKshirsagar who headed the Ajit Pawarled NCPrsquos Beed assembly unit had resigned a day earlier submitting his letter to state unit president Sunil Tatkare Sources said he felt sidelined as key policy decisions were being taken by the state general secretary and former MLA Amarsinh Pandit reported news agency PTIKshirsagar had contested the 2024 assembly elections from Beed on an NCP ticket but lost by 5300 votesAccording to PTI he comes from a prominent political family his father Dr Bharatbhushan Kshirsagar formerly led the Beed Municipal Council his grandmother the late Kesharbai Kshirsagar was a threeterm MP and also an MLA and his uncle Jaidatt Kshirsagar served as an MLA four times and held ministerial posts for nearly 15 yearsShiv Sena announces incharge leaders for upcoming municipal council and nagar panchayat electionsFor the upcoming municipal council and nagar panchayat elections the Shiv Sena on Thursday announced the list of election incharges The announcement was made by the party head and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde The party has declared incharges for 31 districts across the state entrusting responsibilities to Shiv Sena Ministers and Members of ParliamentldquoAs per Shindersquos directives meticulous planning has been undertaken to ensure that neither the Shiv Sena nor the Mahayuti grand alliance suffers any setbacks in the Maharashtra local body electionsrdquo a press release issued by the party stated on Thursday adding that senior leaders have been assigned special responsibilities to strengthen the party organisation in every districtThese incharges have been tasked with coordinating with local workers conveying the partyrsquos policies development initiatives and the Mahayuti governmentrsquos propeople schemes to the public The list announced today includes ministers Members of Parliament MPs and legislatorsList of election incharge leadersSindhudurg MLAs Nilesh Rane and Deepak KesarkarRatnagiri Minister Uday Samant former MLA Sadanand Chavan Minister Yogesh Kadam MLA Kiran Samant former MLA Rajan SalviRaigad Minister Bharat Gogawale MLA Mahendra Thorve MLA Mahendra DalviBuldhana Union Minister Prataprao Jadhav MLA Sanjay Gaikwad and former MLAs Sanjay Raymulkar and Shashikant KhedekarYavatmal Minister Sanjay Rathod former MLAs Dushyant Chaturvedi and Vishwas NandekarWashim MLA Bhavanatai GavliAkola Former MLAs Gopikishan Bajoria Narayanrao Gavhankar and Viplav BajoriaAmravati Abhijeet Adsul Deputy Leader Preeti Band former MLA Dnyaneshwar Dhane Patil former minister Jagdish Gupta former MLA Shashikant DeshpandeGadchiroli Minister Ashish Jaiswal Ashish DesaiChandrapur Former MLAs Manohar Chandrikapure and Sahasram Korote Harshal Shinde Mukesh JivatodeGondia Minister Ashish Jaiswal MLA Narendra BhondekarWardha MLA Manisha Kayande Raj DixitNagpur Former Minister Dr Deepak Sawant Kripal Tumane Kiran PandavLatur MLAs Tanaji Sawant and Hemant PatilDharsiv Minister Pratap Sarnaik MLA Tanaji Sawant former MLA Dnyanraj ChouguleNanded MLAs Balaji Kalyankar Anand Bodarkar Hemant Patil and Baburao KadamHingoli MLA Santosh BangarBeed MLAs Arjun Khotkar and Hikmat UdanParbhani MLA Arjun Khotkar Deputy Leader Anandrao JadhavJalna MLA Arjun KhotkarChhatrapati Sambhajinagar MLA Sanjana Jadhav MLA Vilas Bhumre MLA Ramesh Boranare MLA Abdul SattarKolhapur Minister Prakash Abitkar MP Dhairyashil Mane former MP Sanjay MandlikSolapur Shahaji Bapu Patil former MLA Siddharam Mehetre former MLA Uttamprakash Khandare former MLA Jaywant Rao JagtapSangli MP Dhairyashil Mane MLA Suhas BabarSatara Minister Shambhuraj Desai MLA Mahesh ShindePune MP Shrirang Barne MLA Vijay Shivtare MLA Sharad SonawaneAhilyanagar MLA Vitthal Lange Patil former MP Sadashiv Lokhande MLA Amol Khatal former MLA Bhausaheb KambleDhule MLA Manjula GavitNandurbar MLA Amshya Padvi MLA Chandrakant Raghuwanshi former MLA Girish ChoudharyJalgaon Minister Gulabrao Patil MLA Kishor Appa Patil MLA Chandrakant Sonawane MLA Amol Patil MLA Chandrakant Patil former MLA Girish ChoudharyNashik MLA Suhas Kande MLA Kishor Darade former MLA Dhanraj Mhalse former MP Hemant Godse Deputy Leader Vijay Karanjkar