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Ashok Chavan (Photo: PTI)
Former Maharashtra minister and Congress’ Muslim face in Mumbai, Baba Siddique, who quit the Congress earlier this month and joined the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), reacted to Ashok Chavan’s exit, saying his former party should treat this as a wake-up call.
Ashok Chavan, a former Maharashtra chief minister, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday. He said he has joined the BJP to take forward Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s development agenda.
While Chavan has not explained why he left the Congress, Siddique claims that people are feeling suffocated in the party.
“Ashok Chavan called me, and I told him that we are going to meet soon on the way ahead. More people are going to leave because when a person feels suffocated, he tries to find a way. It is a wake-up call for Congress, but I don’t think they are going to wake up,” he said.
Slamming the Congress, Siddique said that the grand old party lives in La-La land.
“They don’t…