Maharashtra: Instrumental in Raju Shetti´s Lok Sabha loss, former MoS to float new party
(WorldNews India)

Former Minister of State for Agriculture Sadabhau Khot has decided to float his own political party, which is likely to fight elections in the near future. Khot, who was speaking to The Indian Express, said his party will contest elections in alliance with the BJP. After his expulsion from the Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghtana, led by former MP and farmers´ leader Raju Shetti, Khot had floated an apolitical organisation by the name of Rayat Kranti Sanghtana. Khot, who had continued being a minister in the Devendra Fadnavis government, had played an important part in the defeat of Shetti in the Lok Sabha elections last year. While the Rayat Kranti Sanghtana was a separate organisation, Khot´s...