Clip exposes rift in BJP unit

Already in troubled waters owing to infighting, an audio clip that went viral on various social media platforms on Monday has yet again exposed the escalating rift within the Mira Bhayandar unit of the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP). In the audio clip, a staunch Narendra Mehta loyalist in his telephonic conversation is heard asking an office-bearer of BJP’s North Indian cell to make his choice if he wanted his name to be retained or deleted in the committee as there were two factions in existence and they did not consider city BJP chief-Hemant Mhatre as their president. When contacted Hemant Mhatre said, “BJP is one big family with no such serious rifts. Such issues (differences) are common in a family and will be sorted out within it."