Summary:
“This is a conspiracy of some party leaders,” the former Mandrem MLA said.Parsekar had lost the 2017 assembly polls to Sopte by more than 7,000 votes. We have to see what the people of Mandrem do now, he said.“Chief minister Manohar Parrikar and BJP state president Vinay Tendulkar should have shown maturity and accepted defeat in the 2017 assembly elections,” Parsekar said. “How will Sopte now answer those very people and parties who got him elected?”Sopte’s joining the BJP is viewed as a ‘ghar wapsi’. “Let the elections be announced first,” he said. “That is between me and party,” he said..