Witnessing yet another exit of major leader and many workers from the Congress ahead of the urban body elections, its candidate from ward number 70 of the Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) Jyoti Suresh Chouhan returned the party ticket and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) here on Thursday.
Welcoming Jyoti Suresh Chouhan and other Congress office bearers in party fold, the BJP state president and MP Nandkumar Singh Chouhan said, “Impressed with the working and policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and the ideology of the BJP these people have joined the BJP.” Chouhan said Jyoti Suresh was so much impressed with the BJP policies and ideology that she had returned the Congress ticket from ward 70 to join the BJP. This was the initial success in the campaigning for the BMC elections. The BJP registered historic victory in the first phase of civic body elections of the State, well planned campaigning for the remaining four municipal corporations of the state has been started and we would emerge victorious in all of them, and the BJP would form the municipalities in them, he claimed.
Chouhan lauded the efforts of Narela MlA and BJP State spokesman Vishwas Sarang under whose constituency ward number 70 comes and gave the credit of the Congress leaders joining of BJP to him. “I welcome all the Congress leaders and workers in the BJP and hope that they would now on work whole heatedly for the BJP candidates not only in ward 70 but also in other wards of the city. I also hope that they would help in strengthening the party organization in the state capital,” he added. Chouhan replying media queries on the occasion said that the meeting of the appeal committee has been completed. All the complaints received by the committee were considered and it was decided that there is no need for candidate change in any of the four corporations going to polls, he added.