JAIPUR: Dholpur MLA Shobharani Kushwah, who was expelled by BJP for cross-voting in Rajya Sabha polls in June last year, has joined Congress along with three others at Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi’s rally in Jhunjhunu on Wednesday.
Priyanka welcomed the four leaders into the party.
BJP leader from Kishangarh, Vikas Chaudhary, and former National Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Mamta Sharma also joined the Congress.Choudhary was disgruntled over not getting a BJP ticket from Kishangarh Assembly seat in the upcoming polls as the party preferred its Ajmer MP Bhagirath Chaudhary form there. Vikas contested the last Assembly election from there on a BJP ticket but lost.
It is a homecoming for Mamta Sharma and her son Samridh. Mamta had joined the BJP just before the Assembly elections in 2018 after she was denied a party ticket by the Congress. BJP fielded her from Pipalda but she lost the election.
Chief minister Ashok Gehlot and Rajasthan Congress chief Govind Singh Dotasra were among the party leaders present at the public meeting.
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Priyanka welcomed the four leaders into the party.
BJP leader from Kishangarh, Vikas Chaudhary, and former National Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Mamta Sharma also joined the Congress.Choudhary was disgruntled over not getting a BJP ticket from Kishangarh Assembly seat in the upcoming polls as the party preferred its Ajmer MP Bhagirath Chaudhary form there. Vikas contested the last Assembly election from there on a BJP ticket but lost.
It is a homecoming for Mamta Sharma and her son Samridh. Mamta had joined the BJP just before the Assembly elections in 2018 after she was denied a party ticket by the Congress. BJP fielded her from Pipalda but she lost the election.
Chief minister Ashok Gehlot and Rajasthan Congress chief Govind Singh Dotasra were among the party leaders present at the public meeting.
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