Former Union minister and senior BJP leader Jaysingrao Gaikwad Patil resigned from the party on Tuesday. In his letter to Chandrakant Patil, he said he was resigning from the state BJP unit and also from the primary membership of the party.  He sent his resignation letter to Maharashtra BJP president Chandrakant Patil in the morning.

"I am willing to work for the party, but the party is not giving me chance, hence I took this step," Gaikwad Patil,  said before media. "I don't want to be a member of Parliament or member of the Legislative Assembly now. I wish to work for strengthening the party and I am asking for such responsibility since a decade. But still, the party didn’t give me a chance," he claimed. "The party doesn't want those who have made efforts to raise the party in the state."

The veteran leader said he earlier served as a minister at the Centre as well as in Maharashtra. Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra on Tuesday confirmed that the state government would soon table a bill against 'love jihad'. The bill is likely to be brought in the next Assembly session.

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