Cong MLA joins BJP ahead of LS polls in MP

April 09, 2014 16:46

Another defection to the BJP. In a jolt to the Congress ahead of the Lok Sabha polls in Madhya Pradesh, the party MLA from Maihar seat in Satna district has joined BJP.

Narayan Tripathi, who joined the party in the presence of state Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan at a function yesterday in Satna, is the third MLA from Congress to join the saffron party after Sanjay Pathak and Dinesh Ahirwar.

The Maihar MLA said he left Congress as he was being neglected by the party. Tripathi was earlier with the Samajwadi Party and later joined the Congress and contested the 2013 Assembly polls from Maihar.

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