A day after switching to Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Eknath Khadse on October 24 stated that many people want to leave BJP in Maharashtra but the party always stop them by saying the present government is going to collapse. He said, “Many people want to leave BJP and to stop them the party says the government (in Maharashtra) is going to collapse, but the government is not going to fall.