In the last one week, two former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs have switched over to Congress in Madhya Pradesh ahead of the crucial bypolls to 28 assembly seats. Two other BJP leaders have already switched over to the Congress days ago.
Parul defeated Rajput in the 2013 assembly election as a BJP candidate in Surkhi assembly seat of Sagar district. The two have been at loggerheads off and on the electoral arena.
Parul, an MBA degree holder from London, was denied a ticket by the BJP in the 2018 assembly elections, but the BJP candidate who was fielded in her place lost to Rajput by nearly 21,000 votes.
A week ago, BJP leader from Gwalior, Satish Sikarwar joined the Congress along with two corporators and nearly 300 supporters at the party’s Bhopal office.
Sikarwar, who had contested the 2018 assembly elections from Gwalior East constituency, lost to the then Congress candidate Munna Lal Goyal. Both Munna Lal Goyal and Govind Singh Rajput switched over to the BJP in March this along with Jyotiraditya Scindia.
Earlier, in June, two stalwarts of the saffron party had switched over to the Congress. Former Gwalior MLA and three term minister Balendu Shukla and BJP leader and former Ujjain MP Premchand Gudda and his son joined the Congress.The bypolls on 28 seats will take place in October simultaneously with Bihar Assembly elections.
