Two leaders have recently moved to the BJP despite a growing unease in the party about this ‘politics of defections’. But defections now aren’t the same as they were earlier.
For a month, right up until second week of April, MP Health Minister Prabhuram Choudhary, a doctor by profession, skipped Covid meetings and was missing from capital Bhopal.
The Congress leader said that Jyotiraditya Scindia who resigned from the party last year to join BJP, had the option to strengthen the organisation by working with its members.
The Madhya Pradesh BJP in-charge pointed out Scindia and his loyalists who quit the Congress and joined BJP last year have been given ministerial berths.
Two Scindia loyalists have been re-inducted into the MP cabinet after bypolls, but 4 berths, including 3 held by ex-Congress MLAs who lost, have been left vacant.
Harshit Singhai, a Scindia loyalist, says he had filed his nomination for long-delayed election 3 years ago, and informed Congress in March that he quit the party.
Overall, BJP is ahead in 21 of 28 seats that went to polls, according to the latest trends. In the Scindia stronghold of Gwalior-Chambal region, the BJP is leading in 10 of the 16 seats.
In May 1974, RSS chief Madhukar Dattatraya Deoras spoke at a lecture series in Pune about caste-based discrimination and social equality within the Hindu fold.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
While the IAF remains committed to the Tejas programme and has placed orders for 180 Tejas Mk1A, the force is eagerly waiting for the Tejas Mk 2 version.
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