PM Modi, Amit Shah are my leaders: Pankaja Munde; says not using any pressure tactics

Pankaja, daughter of BJP stalwart from Vanjari community late Gopinath Munde, also said she would always protect her fortress and keep it strong.

With many office-bearers of the 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 Munde’s home turf Beed and other parts of the State, Pankaja 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.