Former Goa BJP minister Mahadev Naik joins AAP

Former Goa industries minister and BJP MLA Mahadev Naik on Friday joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), about six months earlier than legislative meeting polls within the state anticipated early 2022.

The AAP, that made a debacle debut within the Goa meeting polls in 2017, is positioning itself as a significant contender within the upcoming meeting polls in Goa and has been inducting volunteers into the party fold. Welcoming Naik into the party, AAP nationwide convenor and Delhi leader minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted, “We will be able to paintings in combination to serve the folks of Goa and provides them a greater high quality of existence.”

Welcome Mahadev Naik Ji to AAP circle of relatives. We will be able to paintings in combination to serve the folks of Goa and provides them a greater qualify of existence. https://t.co/XBO0MXBAvl

— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) August 6, 2021

Naik, a minister within the cupboard of former leader minister Laxmikant Parsekar, is a two-time MLA from the Shiroda constituency in South Goa. He, on the other hand, additionally had an day trip with the Congress. He misplaced the 2019 bypoll he contested from the Congress. BJP’s Subhash Shirodkar, a former Congressman, had gained the seat within the 2019 bypolls.

“AAP is the one other folks centric party in Goa presently,” stated Mahadev Naik. “The place was once the BJP executive when Goenkars have been struggling all the way through the Corona pandemic? Simplest Goa AAP was once serving to fellow Goenkars going door-to-door to assist test oxygen ranges. When Goenkars have been out of jobs, it was once the AAP and now not the BJP that equipped ration to the Goenkars,” he stated.

“BJP promised a Congress Mukt India however as of late it’s Congress Yukt BJP. Goa executive is a comic story. ….It’s my company trust that best the Kejriwal fashion may give a excellent long run to the adolescence of Goa and this is why I’ve joined AAP,” added Naik.

Naik was once inducted into the Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi on Friday within the presence of Goa state convenor Rahul Mhambre and senior AAP leaders Satyendar Jain and Atishi.