Jaipur: Congress leader and former Union Minister Subhash Maharia has joined BJP on Friday in the presence of BJP National Secretary Arun Singh in Jaipur.
Besides Maharia, retired IPS officer Ramdev Singh Khariwa, retired IAS officer PR Meena, retired IPS officers Gopal Meena, Narsi Kirad and Hemant Sharma also joined the BJP.
“In protest against Congress’s false promises, corruption, Jungle Raj and inspired by Prime Minister Modi’s welfare schemes, Congress’ mass base leader, former MP and former Union Minister Subhash Maharia joined BJP believing in five principles,” tweeted BJP National Secretary Arun Sigh.
कांग्रेस के झूंठे वादों, भ्रष्टाचार, जंगलराज के विरोध मे एंव प्रधानमंत्री मोदी जी की गरीब कल्याण योजनाओं से प्रेरित हो ,आज कांग्रेस के जनाधार वाले नेता पूर्व सांसद एंव पूर्व केन्द्रीय मंत्री सुभाष महरिया ने भाजपा की पंचनिष्ठाओं मे विश्वास कर सदस्यता ग्रहण की। @BJP4Rajasthan pic.twitter.com/fzYwBkJ3w6
— Arun Singh (@ArunSinghbjp) May 19, 2023
Maharia was in the BJP before he joined the Congress. In 1998, 1999 and 2004, he was elected to the Lok Sabha after which he faced defeat in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections.
In the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government Maharia was a minister and he also served as the national vice president of the BJP’s Kisan Morcha. In the 2019 general elections, he contested against the BJP on a Congress ticket.
The Rajasthan unit of Congress is continuing to give a headache to the party’s high command as the simmering tensions between Gehlot and Sachin Pilot have come out in the open just ahead of Assembly elections in the state scheduled to be held later this year.
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