Dehradun (Uttarakhand): A day after he resigned from the first membership of Congress, Manish Khanduri joined arms with the Bharatiya Janata Party in Dehradun on Saturday.
Manish Khanduri, son of former Uttarakhand Chief Minister and veteran BJP chief Retd Major General Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri, joined the BJP within the presence of Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on the BJP Mahanagar workplace within the state capital.
Khanduri acquired a heat welcome from Chief Minister Dhami and different celebration employees as they felicitated him with garlands and an embrace.
Election in-charge Dushyant Kumar Gautam and state celebration chief Mahendra Bhatt had been additionally current on the event.
Earlier, Khanduri introduced his choice in a Facebook put up and stated, “I am resigning from the primary membership of the Indian National Congress, and all associated positions. I have taken this decision without anticipation or expectation of any personal gain.”
In a giant jolt for the Congress celebration forward of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, senior Congress chief and former Union Minister Suresh Pachouri additionally joined the BJP in Bhopal on Saturday.
Significantly, the setback to the grand outdated celebration got here only a day after Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra crossed over into Gujarat after a quick stopover in Madhya Pradesh.
The Congress launched its first record of 39 candidates for Lok Sabha elections on Friday, with celebration General Secretary KC Venugopal asserting that his celebration’s precedence is to win the utmost variety of Lok Sabha seats.
The names have been introduced for Lok Sabha seats in Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Kerala, Lakshwadeep, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, Telangana, and Tripura.
Of the overall 39 candidates introduced, 16 are from Kerala, seven from Karnataka and 6 from Chhattisgarh, and 4 from Telangana. Two from Meghalaya and one every from Nagaland, Tripura, Sikkim and Lakshwadeep.
Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal knowledgeable that senior celebration chief Rahul Gandhi will once more contest from the Wayanad constituency, the seat received by him in 2019.
The record of 39 candidates was launched after the celebration held its Central Election Committee assembly on Thursday.
The Lok Sabha polls are more likely to be held in April-May this 12 months.
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