BHOPAL: Six months before the assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, former minister of the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government and three times MLA Deepak Joshi announced he is ready to quit BJP and join the Congress.
Deepak Joshi is son of BJP patriarch Kailash Joshi who was also the ninth chief minister of Madhya Pradesh. Deepak Joshi has told the Congress leadership that he will be in Bhopal on May 6. Former chief minister and state Congress president Kamal Nath will give primary membership of the party to Deepak Joshi that day.
For the BJP, after the exit of prominent tribal leader Nandkumar Sai from the party in Chhattisgarh, the quitting of Kailash Joshi’s son would be a major blow before the elections.
