Sanjay Raut Slams BJP: '70% Outsiders in the Party, Power Alone Keeping Them Afloat'

Raut alleged that senior BJP leaders including Chandrashekhar Bawankule, Devendra Fadnavis, and Union Home Minister Amit Shah have not genuinely contributed to the party’s organic growth in the state. Instead, he credited the foundational expansion of the BJP in Maharashtra to late leaders such as Gopinath Munde, Eknathrao Khadse, and Pramod Mahajan.

“Whether it is Chandrashekhar Bawankule, Devendra Fadnavis, or his boss Amit Shah, they have not built the party. It was Munde, Khadse, and Mahajan who strengthened the BJP in Maharashtra. Bawankule and his gang used money and political power to break other parties and swell their ranks,” Raut claimed.

He further stated that the current version of the BJP is far from its ideological roots and has instead expanded through defections and political opportunism, bringing corruption along with it.

“This is not the original BJP. They didn’t grow—they inflated by breaking others. But once they are out of power, this swelling will subside,” Raut remarked.

Raut also criticized the BJP for allegedly undermining other parties for its own benefit. He claimed the party has become a refuge for defectors, stating, “Today’s BJP is 70 percent made up of outsiders who have no ideological connection to the party. Despite all this, their hunger for power is insatiable. All they do is break, break, and break.”

He accused BJP of destabilizing various political formations across Maharashtra:

“They broke Shiv Sena, abandoned the NCP, and now they plan to dismantle Shinde’s Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party as well,” he said.

Raut concluded by urging the BJP to return to ideological politics and grow its base through conviction rather than coercion.