Ashok Chavan News / Chavan made such a mistake in BJP's first press conference, all the leaders started laughing

Ashok Chavan News: Former Chief Minister Ashok Chavan joined BJP on Tuesday. After this his first press conference was organized. Ashok Chavan made a big mistake in this press conference. In fact, while taking the names of BJP officials, he suddenly took the name of Mumbai Congress chief instead of BJP. At the same time, in this press conference of BJP, all other officials including Devendra Fadnavis started laughing when the name of Congress official was taken. As soon as he thanked Mumbai BJP unit chief Ashish Shelar by calling him Mumbai Congress chief, everyone present there started laughing. However, later he also laughed and corrected it.

Video of press conference

The video of this incident has also surfaced, in which Devendra Fadnavis gave the mic to Ashok Chavan during the press conference. After this, Ashok Chavan started taking names of BJP officials to express his gratitude. First of all he took the names of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and BJP state unit president Chandrashekhar Bawankule. After this, instead of BJP's Mumbai unit chief Ashish Shelar, he called him Mumbai Congress President, after which Fadnavis and other officials stopped him. On this Ashok Chavan also realized his mistake and started laughing. During this, he also said that it was a mistake since it was the first press conference of BJP.

VIDEO | Former Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan mistakenly addressed #Mumbai BJP chief Ashish Shelar as Mumbai Congress chief triggering a laughter from Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis and others. The incident happened as Chavan addressed the media after joining the BJP earlier today in… pic.twitter.com/Em0VWSRsgy

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Chavan left Congress and joined BJP

Let us tell you that former Chief Minister Ashok Chavan joined BJP on Tuesday. Earlier on Monday, Chavan had resigned from the primary membership of Congress. Ashok Chavan was inducted into the BJP at the party office in Mumbai in the presence of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, BJP state unit president Chandrashekhar Bawankule, party Mumbai unit chief Ashish Shelar and cabinet minister Girish Mahajan. Before joining BJP, Chavan said, "Today is the beginning of a new political career in my life." When Chavan was asked whether he had received any call from senior Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, he replied: No one replied.