He said that people felt betrayed when the Waqf amendment bill was sent to the Joint Parliamentary Committee, and due to that the people have decided to give a huge majority to the party in the state's upcoming assembly elections

"When the abrogation of Article 370 was passed, it was passed first by cabinet then went through Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and by night the president signed it, but this was not the case because in Lok Sabha there were a little less seats, so now people have decided to give a majority to the party," he said

"People were casual before, that the party would cross 400 seats, but now they will be attentive and vote for us," he added

"BJP's top leadership have selected me as the candidate from the assembly for the second time. I have been there for the people and working for them ever since I was elected," Patil said

The state's assembly elections are scheduled for November 20, with counting for all 288 constituencies set for November 23

The major electoral contest will be between two alliances-- the Mahayuti - comprising of BJP, Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit Pawar) and Shive Sena (Eknath Shinde) and the Maha Vikas Agadhi - comprising of Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT), and NCP (Sharad Pawar)

In the 2019 assembly elections, the BJP won 105 seats, the Shiv Sena 56, and the Congress 44