The Congress Party got yet another setback ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Sumer Singh, a prominent leader within the Madhya Pradesh Congress and known for his close association with former Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh, made a notable shift in allegiance by joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday.
Along with Sumer Singh, a number of his supporters including his son Dhananjay Singh, also joined the saffron party. The Congress members joined the BJP in the presence of Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, who switched to the BJP in 2020.
During Digvijaya Singh’s tenure as the CM, Sumer Singh was appointed as a member of the state Public Service Commission (PSC). He is considered as a family member of Digvijaya Singh, Congress sources said. Sumer Singh was also elected as the district panchayat president of Guna from Congress during the period 2010-15.
Jabalpur's Congress Mayor joins BJP
Earlier in the day, Jabalpur Mayor and Congress leader Jagat Bahadur Singh joined the ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh along with several other local members of his outfit.
Singh and other Congress leaders took membership of the BJP in the presence of Chief Minister Mohan Yadav and its MP unit president VD Sharma at the state party headquarters in Bhopal, a party spokesman said.
Dindori's district panchayat president Rudesh Paraste and vice-president Anju Jitendra Beohar, Singrauli's district panchayat vice-president Archana Singh, among others, also took membership of the saffron party, he said.
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