The Congress party in the state took a double hit when former minister Ram Gopal Bairwa, former MLA Ashok Tanwar, and numerous other leaders joined the Bharatiya Janata Party with just two weeks to go before the Rajasthan Assembly elections.
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, a member of the Lok Sabha, and CP Joshi, the president of the Rajasthan BJP, attended the induction of the new leaders at the party headquarters in Jaipur.
Joshi welcomed the new leaders into the party and said, “It looks like we’re going to make Jhotwara ‘Congress-mukt.’ Thank you to each and every one of you for putting your trust in the BJP, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.”
Jhotwara, a Legislative Assembly constituency, is a suburban area of Jaipur.
Tanwar, after quitting Congress in 2019, has been on a party-hopping spree while also launching his own party ‘Apna Bharat Morcha’ in February 2021. He had joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in November 2021.
