"PM Modi, Amit Shah Are My Leaders": Pankaja Munde Amid Protests By Supporters

Pankaja Munde's comments come at a time when many BJP office-bearers from Beed district in Maharashtra are resigning in protest against her brother, MP Pritam Munde not finding a place in the newly-reshuffled Union cabinet.

With many office-bearers of BJP from Beed district in Maharashtra resigning in protest against local MP Pritam Munde not finding a place in the newly-reshuffled Union cabinet, her sister and BJP national secretary Pankaja Munde on Tuesday dismissed reports that she was using any "pressure tactics" even as she hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president J P Nadda as her leaders. Addressing BJP workers who came to Mumbai from Ms Munde's home turf Beed and other parts of the state, she invoked the epic Mahabharata saying the time is not ripe for a "dharmayudha" and gave reference of the righteous demands made by the Pandavas and how they were rejected by the Kauravas. "...I will like to continue to work at a place as long as there is "Ram" in it. If there is no Ram, I will see what to do," she said in Marathi. The word "Ram" is loosely used in public communication denoting whether it is worth doing some work.