Seven Congress corporators from the Chhindwara Municipal Company in Madhya Pradesh have joined the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP), delivering a considerable blow to former Chief Minister Kamal Nath in his stronghold forward of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
Whereas becoming a member of the BJP in Bhopal on the residence of MoS Kailash Vijayvargiya on Tuesday night, the corporators and their supporters raised the slogan “phir ek baar Modi sarkar” (Modi authorities as soon as once more).
The seven corporators who joined the ruling occasion are Roshni Sallam, Leena Tirkam, Santoshi Vadiwar, Deepa Mohre, Jagdish Godre, Chandrabhan Thakre and Dhanraj Bhavarkar.
The seven corporators mentioned they have been impressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s growth work within the state.
With this growth, the BJP’s illustration within the Chhindwara Municipal Company has elevated to 27, whereas the Congress left with 21 corporators. The shift is predicted to have repercussions on the functioning of the civic physique, the place the Congress at present holds the place of Mayor and President.
Notably, the defection occurred at a time when Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ was passing by way of the state.
Chhindwara, a stronghold of Kamal Nath, who can be a sitting MLA from this seat, has been witnessing a sequence of political manoeuvrings in current occasions.
There has been speculation that even Kamal and his son Nakul Nath, who’s the Lok Sabha member from Chhindwara, might cross over to the BJP. Nevertheless, the father-son duo have known as it a hearsay and mentioned that they don’t intend to depart the Congress.
Within the 2019 common elections, BJP secured a dominant place in Madhya Pradesh by profitable 28 out of the full 29 Lok Sabha seats. The lone seat secured by the Congress was in Chhindwara.
(With inputs from Pawan Sharma.)