MLA Joins BJP (13/07/2020)
Another Shock For "CONGRESS"
Pradyumn Singh Lodhi, a Congress legislator from Madhya Pradesh’s Bundelkhand region, resigned from the state assembly and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday.
Lodhi’s resignation has come amid the political crisis the Congress is facing in Rajasthan after having lost its government in Madhya Pradesh.
The 52-year-old Lodhi’s jump to the ruling party has also come at a time when Congress with 24 MLAs short of the majority mark in the 230-member state assembly hopes to regain power by defeating the BJP in the by-polls to the 24 assembly seats.
The dates for the by-polls are yet to be announced by Election Commission of India (ECI).
Lodhi joined the BJP at state BJP headquarters in presence of chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, state BJP president VD Sharma and certain other BJP leaders.
“Bundelkhand needs more irrigation projects to check migration from there. My demand for a Rs 450-crore irrigation project for the region was accepted by chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan two days back despite the state government facing a financial constraint,” Lodhi said after he joined the BJP.
“Two other projects have been sanctioned for the region. I have joined the BJP for development of my region and BJP’s policies are public welfare-oriented,” he added.
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