Former Congress leader Kripashankar Singh joins BJP
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Former Congress leader and former minister of state for home Kripashankar Singh joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday in presence of leader of opposition Devendra Fadnavis and Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrakant Patil. Singh’s induction in the party is assumed to be an attempt by the BJP to woo north Indian voters in the forthcoming Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections. Singh, who was Mumbai Congress chief during 2008-2012 quit the party in September 2019 after he felt sidelined by the party leadership. The leader is believed to have moved closer to BJP after he was discharged from a multi-crore disproportionate assets case by a special court in 2018.
“I got everything in my political career without asking for anything. Likewise, there are no conditions put forth for any position. I was upset with Congress over its stand of abrogation of Article 370 and I had asked for the reason on party’s stand on it. I would definitely work in the interest of the party during the BMC elections,” he said
The induction of Singh, however, has not gone well within the party. A few BJP leaders took to social media to remind the party that the leader had blamed RSS for the 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai.
