Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.
transgender: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday took a jibe at the Congress by taking the name of the Bharatiya Janata Party. In view of some famous faces of Congress joining BJP, he asked the opposition party whether there is any guarantee that its leaders will remain with it if it comes to power and will not join the saffron party. Late Congress leader K. Vijayan said this hours after Karunakaran’s daughter Padmaja Venugopal joined BJP.
’11 former Chief Ministers of Congress joined BJP’
Addressing an election rally held in Kannur for the Left candidate from Kannur Lok Sabha seat, M.V. Jayarajan, the Chief Minister said that 11 former Congress chief ministers, several Union ministers and hundreds of senior leaders have left the party and joined the BJP. According to a report by the ‘Association of Democratic Reforms’, 393 Congress members left the party between 2014 and 2021, of which 173 were MPs or MLAs and more than 100 were senior leaders.
‘More than 500 leaders left Congress in 10 years’
Vijayan asked, ‘In fact, from 2013 to March 2023, more than 500 Congress leaders have left the party. This is the situation in Congress. So, if Congress comes to power, is there any guarantee that he will remain Congress? Let us tell you that former Chief Minister of Kerala K. Karunakaran’s daughter Padmaja Venugopal joined BJP in Delhi on Thursday. Padmaja took membership of BJP in the presence of former Union Minister and BJP’s national in-charge of Kerala affairs Prakash Javadekar and national secretary Arvind Menon and other leaders.
‘I am happy to join BJP, but there is some tension too’
On this occasion, Padmaja had said that she is very happy to join BJP, but is also a little stressed because she stayed with Congress for many years. He had said that he tried to contact the Congress leadership several times to discuss his grievances, but was never given time. Padmaja’s brother. Muraleedharan is the Congress MP from Vadakara. Earlier, former Chief Minister of Kerala A. Of. Antony’s son Anil Antony had joined BJP. Anil has been made the candidate from Pathanamthitta seat of Kerala for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
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