Less than a month after he was expelled from the Congress, former MLA Ashish Deshmukh on Sunday rejoined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), reported the PTI.

Ashish Deshmukh was inducted back into the BJP in Nagpur in the presence of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and senior party leader Devendra Fadnavis and the party's state unit president Chandrashekhar Bawankule, according to the PTI.