Since Chief Minister Harish Rawat has announced to contest election from Haridwar rural constituency Bharatiya Janata Party leaders have revised their strategy and managed to lure few more Congress leaders into BJP. Four senior Congress leader including State OBC welfare committee chairperson Santosh Kashyap and Pradesh Congress Committee secretary joined the BJP in the presence of Ex-CM Vijay Bahuguna and BJP in-charge Shyam Jaju here in Dehradun on Tuesday.
Santosh Kashyap, who is chairperson of State OBC welfare council and was senior Congress leader, joined the BJP. Kashyap alleged that as the constituency has strong presence of OBC so she was demanding OBC representation from there but CM Harish Rawat had "deceived us". She pledged that she would teach lesson to CM because we would vote against him. "We have been working on single agenda to defeat CM otherwise we would not get representation from here," she said.
She joined BJP along with former Congress state general secretary Bhagat Ram Kothari, Congress state OBC cell president Chandrashekhar Kashyap and PCC incumbent secretary Haji Dilshad Ahmed Quraishi.
Talking to the media, Bahuguna said that now Congress game is over and now they will have to pay its price of what they sowed during last three years.