Importance of being Sushil Kumar Shinde ahead of Lok Sabha polls as BJP looks for a face in Solapur belt
When senior Congress leader and former Maharashtra chief minister Sushil Kumar Shinde made the startling claim last Wednesday that he had been approached by the BJP twice to join its fold, he was looking to project the state BJP’s policy of expansion, which would involve the ruling party’s bid to ensure the decimation of the Opposition players, especially the Congress.