BJP MLA Resigns from Party Ahead of Assembly Polls in Madhya Pradesh

Bhopal: While the assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh are due in a few months, a BJP MLA Virendra Raghuwanshi resigned from the ruling party on Thursday.

Senior Congress leader and former Union minister Arun Yadav in a statement said Virendra Raghuwanshi “will join the Congress on September 2.”

In a letter addressed to MP BJP president Vishnu Dutt Sharma, Raghuwanshi, who represents the Kolaras assembly seat in Shivpur district, alleged that party workers like him were being ignored by the newly arrived BJP members.

He also targeted BJP leader and Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, who quit the Congress in 2020.

Raghuwanshi also alleged in the letter that ministers and administration were involved in massive corruption and claimed the in-charge minister of Shivpuri district justified bribery by stating “it is like offering prasad in a temple.”

Raghuwanshi said, “All newly appointed ministers and MLAs who have come into the BJP will not be able to save the party. They will drown the party and nobody will be able to save it.”