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The story of senior leaders leaving the Congress for the BJP began ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections when the party lost Haryana heavyweights Birender Singh and Rao Inderjit Singh. Both went on to become ministers in Prime Minister Narendra Modi s first cabinet.
The saga of defections in the Congress which began ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections continues unabated with 47-year-old former Union minister Jitin Prasada jumping ship on Wednesday, triggering speculation of further exists. Prasada follows in the footsteps of his former Congress colleague Jyotiraditya Scindia who quit the party to join the BJP in March last year. Both the young leaders leave behind a major vacuum in the Congress, having served as ministers in the erstwhile UPA government and having been part of the inner circle of former Congress president Rahul Gandhi. However, Scindia, the scion of the Gwalior royal family and once the youth face of the Congress party from Madhya Pradesh, is yet to get a cabinet berth or a position of power in the saffron party even after 15 months of his joining.
BJP National President JP Nadda greets Jitin Prasada after he joined BJP, at his residence in New Delhi, Wednesday. (PTI)
NEW DELHI: BJP on Wednesday got a boost in UP, where polls are due early next year, with prominent Congress leader and former Union minister Jitin Prasada joining the saffron party, snapping three generations of family ties with the opposition party and ending his proximity to Rahul Gandhi.
The move, which took political circles by surprise after BJP spokesperson Anil Baluni tweeted about an important impending arrival and Prasada s presence at the BJP headquarters later in the day, delivered a jolt to Congress which slammed his decision as politics of convenience.
Maharashtra: BJP alleges graft in tendering of COVID-19 care centres
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Last Updated: Mar 04, 2021, 12:55 PM IST
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BJP leaders, including Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, Girish Mahajan and Ashish Shelar, also raised slogans against the Shiv Sena-led state government.
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On Tuesday, Fadnavis, speaking in the Legislative Assembly, alleged corruption in the measures taken by the Maharashtra government in handling the COVID-19 situation in the state.
BJP leaders, including former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, staged a protest outside the Vidhan Bhavan here on Thursday over alleged corruption in the tendering process of COVID-19 care centres in the state. One of the banners that the BJP leaders held read: Condemn the government which spent Rs 3.77 crore more than expected expenditure for Covid Care Centres.