Farmers Movement Archive

BJP leader and 3 others join Congress

PATNA: Dharmik Nyas Parishad national president and BJP’s star campaigner Gaurav Krishna Chandra Shastri joined Congress in the presence of the party’s state president Madan Mohan Jha and Congress legislature party leader Ajeet Sharma on Monday. Shastri said religious preachers and saints were feeling betrayed by the BJP, which has used them for taking political mileage. “There is no internal democracy in BJP. We are not free to raise issues of public interest in the party. BJP only uses saint samaj for coming to power and later puts pressure on them to get its political goal achieved. Religious preachers always dislike this,” Shastri said at a press conference organised at Sadaquat Ashram. Apart from Shastri, Saint Nikesh Choudhary, Dheeraj Pandey, Anjani Choudhary and their followers also joined the Congress. While addressing the media, Jha appreciated the efforts of his party in standing with the farmers and against the three farm laws. “We will fight for the rights of farmers till our last breath,” said Jha while appreciating the efforts of his party leader Rahul Gandhi and the tractor march taken out by him in the morning up to Parliament against the 2 contentious farm laws. CLP leader Sharma expressed anger over the detention of his party leaders Randeep Singh Surjewala and BV Shrinivasan and putting another leader Alka Lamba under house arrest. Sharma said Rahul had been showing the ruling NDA mirror and that is why they were getting offended.

The Times of India

2021-07-27

Patna