{"id":418119,"date":"2024-02-10T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2024\/02\/10\/maharashtra-ex-minister-baba-siddique-joins-ajit-pawars-ncp-days-after-quitting-congress\/"},"modified":"2024-02-10T14:43:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T14:43:00","slug":"maharashtra-ex-minister-baba-siddique-joins-ajit-pawars-ncp-days-after-quitting-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2024\/02\/10\/maharashtra-ex-minister-baba-siddique-joins-ajit-pawars-ncp-days-after-quitting-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra Ex Minister Baba Siddique Joins Ajit Pawar&#8217;s NCP Days After Quitting Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Maharashtra Ex Minister Baba Siddique Joins Ajit Pawar's NCP Days After Quitting Congress\" alt=\"Maharashtra Ex Minister Baba Siddique Joins Ajit Pawar's NCP Days After Quitting Congress\" id=\"story_image_main\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2024-02\/70ikadec_baba-siddique-1200_650x400_10_February_24.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">Baba Siddique&#8217;s joined the NCP today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former Maharashtra Minister Baba Siddique has joined Ajit Pawar&#8217;s NCP this evening, days after quitting the Congress. Mr Siddique dealt a severe blow to the Congress &#8211; of which he was a part of for the last 48 years &#8211; when he announced his decision to resign from the party on Thursday, saying &#8220;some decisions are painful, but they have to be taken.&#8221; He was a prominent Muslim face of the Mumbai Congress and served as a minister when the Congress-NCP coalition was in power in Maharashtra.<\/p>\n<p>The 66-year-old is the second senior Mumbai Congress leader to leave the party in the last one month after former Union Minister Milind Deora joined the Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena in January.<\/p>\n<p>He had already made up his mind to go with Ajit Pawar&#8217;s party when he decided to quit the grand old party. &#8220;I will go with the Ajit Pawar group. My journey will be from Congress to Nationalist Congress Party,&#8221; he said soon after announcing his big decision on X.<\/p>\n<p>In his parting words to the Congress, he said, &#8220;I joined the Indian National Congress party as a young teenager and it has been a significant journey lasting 48 years. Today I resign from the primary membership of the Indian National Congress Party with immediate effect&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot I would have liked to express but as they say some things are better left unsaid. I thank everyone who has been a part of this journey,&#8221; his post on X read.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I joined the Indian National Congress party as a young teenager and it has been a significant journey lasting 48 years. Today I resign from the primary membership of the Indian National Congress Party <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/INCIndia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@INCIndia<\/a> with immediate effect. There&#8217;s a lot I would have liked to express\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Baba Siddique (@BabaSiddique) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BabaSiddique\/status\/1755456516746850437?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0Baba Siddique&#8217;s son Zeeshan is a Congress MLA from Bandra (East) in Mumbai. &#8220;He will take his own call,&#8221; said Mr Siddique when asked if his son would follow his footsteps.<\/p>\n<p>The politician is also known for his grand Iftar parties which are attended by top Bollywood stars like Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/maharashtra-ex-minister-baba-siddique-joins-ajit-pawars-ncp-days-after-quitting-congress-5032599\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Baba Siddique&#8217;s joined the NCP today. Former Maharashtra Minister Baba Siddique has joined Ajit Pawar&#8217;s NCP this evening, days after quitting the Congress. Mr Siddique dealt a severe blow to the Congress &#8211; of which he was a part of for the last 48 years &#8211; when he announced his decision to resign from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":418120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[24820,490290,490292,490291,490293,51552,6670,6639],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}