: Senior BJP leader Eknath Khadse issued a veiled warning to the party leadership on Saturday that he would look at other options if his ‘humiliation’ continued.
He also said that he had submitted to the party leadership ‘evidence’ of anti-party activities which led to his daughter’s defeat in the Assembly polls.
Khadse met Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrakant Patil after a meeting of the party’s North Maharashtra core committee here. Speaking to reporters later, he said over the years, he has been kept out of the core committee’s meetings and decision-making process of the state BJP. “I am not God. I am a human being and have emotions. I don’t want to leave the party for whose growth I worked hard for more than four decades. I am still ready to work for the party,” the former minister said.
“But If I continue to face humiliation of being kept away from decision-making, I will have to think differently,” he said. To a question about his statement that Other Backward Class (OBC) leaders in the BJP are being sidelined, Khadse said, “It is not me but party workers feel so. OBC and Bahujan Samaj (a term generally used to denote non-Brahmin communities) leaders have toiled hard, giving blood and sweat for the party’s growth.