Ram Kadam at mid-day's Bandra office on Thursday. Pic/Rane Ashish

Even as rebel BJP MP Nana Patole has quit the party and joined Congress, BJP MLA Ram Kadam has claimed that he switched parties as he was aware that he would not be given a ticket for the next parliamentary elections. "Patole has lost his connect with ground workers and party cadre. Knowing that he won't be given a BJP ticket for the next parliamentary elections, he resigned as MP and joined Congress," Kadam said during his visit to mid-day office on Thursday.