Pune: The Pune unit of the BJP said on Thursday that it would complain to its leadership against Shiv Sena leader Ravindra Dhangekar for claiming that a staffer in Maharashtra minister Chandrakant Patil's office has links with gangster Nilesh Ghaywal.

The Shiv Sena, led by Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, and the BJP are allies in the ruling Mahayuti coalition. While Dhangekar is a former MLA from Kasba Peth in the city, Patil represents the Kothrud assembly seat.

Dhiraj Ghate, BJP city unit president, called Dhangekar's attack on Patil a publicity stunt.

Ghaywal, wanted on charges of murder and extortion, is suspected to have fled to a foreign country even as a case was registered against him recently when his associates allegedly shot at a man in Pune city in a road rage incident

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