Former Mayor of Jaipur, Jyoti Khandelwal, and former MLAs Chandrashekhar Baid and Nandlal Poonia were among half a dozen Congress leaders who joined the Opposition BJP here on Saturday, ahead of the Rajasthan Assembly election. BJP State in-charge Arun Singh said the party was going to win the polls with a “historic margin”.
Others who joined the BJP after leaving the ruling Congress were Rajasthan Heritage Promotion & Protection Authority’s vice-chairman Sanwarmal Maharia, Congress block president from Laxmangarh Jitendra Singh, former students’ union president at Jodhpur’s Jai Narain Vyas University Ravindra Singh Bhati, and Hari Singh Saharan, who contested the Assembly polls twice as an Independent at Mandawa.
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