The Congress suspended former MLA Ashish Deshmukh from the party for six years.
The Congress suspended former MLA Ashish Deshmukh from the party for six years.
Ashish Deshmukh Suspended: Maharashtra Congress has taken major action against its own leader. The Maharashtra Congress has suspended the former MLA from the party for making statements against the party. The Congress has suspended former MLA Ashish Deshmukh (Ashish Deshmukh Suspended) from the party. Ashish Deshmukh has been a Congress MLA from Katol. The former MLA had said that Rahul Gandhi should apologize to the OBC community for his statement on Modi’s surname. Along with this, he also accused the state president of the party of colluding with CM Eknath Shinde.
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Earlier, former MLA Ashish Deshmukh had opposed sending Imran Pratapgarhi to Rajya Sabha by the party and resigned from the post of General Secretary of the party in 2022. At the same time, recently he had met Maharashtra’s Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis. Only after this the party took action and suspended him for six years.
Please tell that Ashish Deshmukh was earlier in the Bharatiya Janata Party only. Leaving BJP, he had joined Congress. After meeting Maharashtra’s Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis, it is believed that he may again join the Bharatiya Janata Party. At the same time, Ashish Deshmukh’s father Ranjit Deshmukh is a Congress leader. In the year 2009, he contested from Savner assembly on a BJP ticket, but he had to face defeat. After this, in 2014, he contested the assembly elections against his uncle from Katol and won.
