<p>Mumbai: Venting his ire against Deputy Chief Minister and NCP President Ajit Pawar, veteran OBC leader Chhagan Bhujbal, who has been denied a ministerial berth in the new MahaYuti-NDA dispensation, on Tuesday said that he is not a toy in anybody’s hands. </p><p>Bhujbal also said that Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis was keen that he be in the ministry. </p><p>Bhujbal is back in his hometurf of Nashik after he left the winter capital of Nagpur, where the Maharashtra legislature session is under way. </p><p>In his attack, 77-year-old Bhujbal, however, did not name Pawar. </p><p>A host of NCP MLAs and MLCs have expressed solidarity with Bhujbal, however, they have not spoken publicly. </p>.Rejected RS seat offer week before Maharashtra cabinet expansion: NCP's Chhagan Bhujbal.<p>Asked about his future course of action, Bhujbal said: “jahan nahin chaina, waha nahi rehna”.</p><p>A NCP stalwart, Bhujbal had been Deputy CM and worked in the erstwhile Democratic Front, Maha Vikas Aghadi and MahaYuti governments. </p><p>“I was keen to contest the Lok Sabha polls (from Nashik),” he said, in what was a reference to the deadlock during seat-sharing discussions with Shiv Sena after which Ajit Pawar left the seat for Shiv Sena’s Hemant Godse.</p><p>“In the Rajya Sabha polls (Ajit Pawar’s wife) Sunetra Pawar was nominated,” he said, adding that he was asked to contest the Vidhan Sabha polls. </p><p>"I am not a toy in your hands,” said Bhujbal. </p>
<p>Mumbai: Venting his ire against Deputy Chief Minister and NCP President Ajit Pawar, veteran OBC leader Chhagan Bhujbal, who has been denied a ministerial berth in the new MahaYuti-NDA dispensation, on Tuesday said that he is not a toy in anybody’s hands. </p><p>Bhujbal also said that Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis was keen that he be in the ministry. </p><p>Bhujbal is back in his hometurf of Nashik after he left the winter capital of Nagpur, where the Maharashtra legislature session is under way. </p><p>In his attack, 77-year-old Bhujbal, however, did not name Pawar. </p><p>A host of NCP MLAs and MLCs have expressed solidarity with Bhujbal, however, they have not spoken publicly. </p>.Rejected RS seat offer week before Maharashtra cabinet expansion: NCP's Chhagan Bhujbal.<p>Asked about his future course of action, Bhujbal said: “jahan nahin chaina, waha nahi rehna”.</p><p>A NCP stalwart, Bhujbal had been Deputy CM and worked in the erstwhile Democratic Front, Maha Vikas Aghadi and MahaYuti governments. </p><p>“I was keen to contest the Lok Sabha polls (from Nashik),” he said, in what was a reference to the deadlock during seat-sharing discussions with Shiv Sena after which Ajit Pawar left the seat for Shiv Sena’s Hemant Godse.</p><p>“In the Rajya Sabha polls (Ajit Pawar’s wife) Sunetra Pawar was nominated,” he said, adding that he was asked to contest the Vidhan Sabha polls. </p><p>"I am not a toy in your hands,” said Bhujbal. </p>