Senior Shiv Sena leader and sitting Lok Sabha MP from Aurangabad, Chandrakant Khaire, has alleged that Maharashtra BJP president Rao Saheb Danve-Patil did not extend help to him during the recent Lok Sabha elections.
“His son-in-law Harshvardhan Jadhav was among my rivals in Aurangabad,” Khaire said on Wednesday. Khaire, a four-term MP from Aurangabad, is a former state minister. Jadhav is a sitting MLA — he had won on a Shiv Sena ticket, and quit the party during the Maratha agitation in Maharashtra. An arch-rival of Khaire in the Sena, Jadhav had rebelled and floated his own party — the Shiv Swarajya Paksha. He is an influential figure in the Maratha community.