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Former Congress MLA Hari Shukla along with several leaders joins BJP in Bhopal

THE JHARKHAND STORY DESK   Bhopal, April 20: A number of Congress leaders, including former MLA Hari Vallabh Shukla, joined the Bharatiya…

Former Congress MLA Hari Shukla along with several leaders joins BJP in Bhopal

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Bhopal, April 20: A number of Congress leaders, including former MLA Hari Vallabh Shukla, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday in Bhopal.

In the presence of Chief Minister Mohan Yadav, former Congress MLA Hari Vallabh Shukla, his supporters, and other congress leaders joined the saffron party at the state BJP office in Bhopal.

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Narrotam Mishra, the convener of the newly formed joining committee and a former state minister, along with Govind Rajput, a state minister, and Suresh Pachori, a BJP leader who recently switched from the Congress party, were among those in attendance at the event.

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Shukla credits PM Modi’s people-oriented policies

Former MLA Shukla expressed that he became a member of the party because he was inspired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s policies and wanted to support the development initiatives led by Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia.

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“Impressed by PM Modi’s policies and to carry forward Jyotiraditya Scindia’s development agenda, I have joined the BJP. There is disappointment with the Congress party. The issues on which Congress became the party of the common people and ruled for 70 years are today cut off from the public. Now it has become only a party of leaders discussing in closed doors,” he stated.

“On the other hand, PM Modi made the BJP a party of the common people be it women, farmers, youth or businessmen. I have also seen the time when BJP workers could not be found in the villages, today the situation has reversed. Congress workers are not being found because the party is cut off from the common people,” he added.

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