<p>A week after he was granted bail, veteran NCP leader and former deputy chief minister Chhagan Bhujbal on Thursday returned home.</p>.<p>Bhujbal, 71, who has been ailing for some time, returned home following his discharge from the civic-run King Edward Memorial Hospital at Parel.</p>.<p>Bhujbal received a phonecall from NCP supremo and former Union agricuture minister Sharad Pawar once he was home.</p>.<p>Bhujbal, a former shiv sainik, first defected to the Congress and later became one of the founders of the Sharad Pawar-led NCP. He is currently an MLA from Yeola in the Nashik district.</p>.<p>An an OBC leader and founder of Mahatma Phule Samata Parishad, he will address a rally on June 10 in Pune, the foundation day of the NCP.</p>.<p>"The rally has been organised to mark 20 years of the party," according to NCP general secretary Praful Patel.</p>.<p>The rally will be a sort of political comeback for Bhujbal, who had been the deputy chief minister of Maharashtra and has handled portfolios such as home, tourism and public works department.</p>.<p>However, in a surpirising development, Bhujbal's son Pankaj Bhujbal, an MLA, on Wednesday, called on Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray, at the latter's residence, sending political circles abuzz.</p>.<p>"It was a relation of 25 years (with Shiv Sena)... I got best wishes... I am grateful," he said.</p>.<p>Last Friday, Bhujbal secured bail from the Bombay High Court.</p>.<p>On Saturday, he completed the bail formalities but preferred to stay in hospital for further treatment.</p>.<p>Bhujbal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on March, 2016 in connection with two money laundering cases registered against him, his nephew Sameer Bhujbal, other family members and associates.</p>.<p>Maharashtra's Anti Corruption Bureau had filed a chargesheet against the Bhujbals, Sameer and 15 others in the new Maharashtra Sadan scam case in February 2016.</p>.<p>Bhujbal had applied in January for bail, after a PMLA special court rejected his bail application in December.</p>
<p>A week after he was granted bail, veteran NCP leader and former deputy chief minister Chhagan Bhujbal on Thursday returned home.</p>.<p>Bhujbal, 71, who has been ailing for some time, returned home following his discharge from the civic-run King Edward Memorial Hospital at Parel.</p>.<p>Bhujbal received a phonecall from NCP supremo and former Union agricuture minister Sharad Pawar once he was home.</p>.<p>Bhujbal, a former shiv sainik, first defected to the Congress and later became one of the founders of the Sharad Pawar-led NCP. He is currently an MLA from Yeola in the Nashik district.</p>.<p>An an OBC leader and founder of Mahatma Phule Samata Parishad, he will address a rally on June 10 in Pune, the foundation day of the NCP.</p>.<p>"The rally has been organised to mark 20 years of the party," according to NCP general secretary Praful Patel.</p>.<p>The rally will be a sort of political comeback for Bhujbal, who had been the deputy chief minister of Maharashtra and has handled portfolios such as home, tourism and public works department.</p>.<p>However, in a surpirising development, Bhujbal's son Pankaj Bhujbal, an MLA, on Wednesday, called on Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray, at the latter's residence, sending political circles abuzz.</p>.<p>"It was a relation of 25 years (with Shiv Sena)... I got best wishes... I am grateful," he said.</p>.<p>Last Friday, Bhujbal secured bail from the Bombay High Court.</p>.<p>On Saturday, he completed the bail formalities but preferred to stay in hospital for further treatment.</p>.<p>Bhujbal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on March, 2016 in connection with two money laundering cases registered against him, his nephew Sameer Bhujbal, other family members and associates.</p>.<p>Maharashtra's Anti Corruption Bureau had filed a chargesheet against the Bhujbals, Sameer and 15 others in the new Maharashtra Sadan scam case in February 2016.</p>.<p>Bhujbal had applied in January for bail, after a PMLA special court rejected his bail application in December.</p>
