Pune: The leader of opposition in Maharashtra Assembly Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil’s son Sujay Vikhe Patil joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday, ahead 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

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According to report,  the development comes after NCP chief Sharad Pawar, whose party is in alliance with the Congress in the state, rejected Sujay’s request to contest the polls from Ahmednagar Lok Sabha seat.

Sujay’s father, Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, is said to have met NCP chief regarding his request.  According to the news Agency PTI,  "Ahmednagar seat was always our seat, there was no point in giving that seat to anyone else. If you look back, NCP even defeated late Balasaheb Vikhe Patil from there and I personally had to face legal case in court from Vikhe.

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Pawar said, “Patil following that. Joining our party was an open option but at no point of time that seat could have been taken away from NCP,”

As per the sources, Saffron party was trying hard to persuade both the Vikhe Patil father-son duo to join the party, ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. 

Meanwhile, Pawar on Monday had announced that he will not be contesting the upcoming Lok Sabha elections and had decided to launch his grand nephew Parth from Maval seat.