After joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday, former legislator Virendra Singh Raghuvanshi a confidant of Union Minister and Congress candidate from Guna-Shivpuri lok Sabha constituency Jyotiraditya Scindia joined the campaign trail for the BJP candidate from Guna Jaibhan Singh Pawaiya on Thgursday.
During his campaign, Raghuvanshi criticised the ideology of the Congress and listed the development work of the ruling BJP regime in Madhya Pradesh.
Raghuvanshi formally joined the BJP in presence of Pawaiya and other leaders here last evening. Raghuvanshi contested the assembly elections last year against Scinida's aunt Yaoshodhara Raje Scindia from Shivpuri on a Congress ticket but lost to Scindia.
Raghuvanshi, who won the by-election on a Congress ticket in 2007 from Shivpuri assembly seat, alleged that Scindia did not work for him whole-heartedly during the previous assembly polls.