Ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) is trying its best to bring the top politicians from rival parties, especially Congress, into its team. As a part of this attempt, several Congress leaders joined the BJP on Saturday. While welcoming the new party members, BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya was caught indulging in a playful banter with the ex-Congress leader Sanjay Shukla.
While welcoming Shukla, Kailash Vijayvargiya said, “Teri gaali suni ab tereko lena pad raha hai (We had to take your abuses and now we have to take you to the party).”
In Madhya Pradesh, senior Congress leader Suresh Pachouri, joined the BJP, causing major harm to the grand-old party ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. Pachouri is said to be close to the Gandhi family. Apart from Pachouri, ex-MP Gajendra Singh Rajukhedi, Arjun Paliya (Pipariya), and Vishal Patel (Depalpur) also joined the BJP.
Vijayvargiya-Shukla turned into friends from foe
During his tenure in the Congress party, Sanjay Shukla was the party candidate against Vijayvargiya, currently a cabinet minister in Madhya Pradesh, from Indore-1 during the recently-concluded state assembly elections. The state assembly election was won by Kailash Vijayvargiya in a fiercely fought battle against Shuka by a margin of over 57,000 votes. Sanjay Shukla's father, Vishnu Shukla, was a senior BJP leader of Indore. Despite his father's ties with the saffron party, Shukla chose to join hands with Gandhis to fight the 2018 assembly on behalf of Congress.
Rahul Gandhi is BJP's mascot, says Kailash Vijayvargiya
A few days ago, Madhya Pradesh minister Kailash Vijayvargiya took a jibe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra. Vijayvargiya mocked Rahul Gandhi and described him as a ‘big mascot’ for the BJP. Referring to Rahul Gandhi's foot march, he said that the more Gandhi travels around the country, the bigger will be the BJP's victory in the upcoming LS polls. “Sometimes a person is a mascot for other people. Gandhi is a big mascot for the BJP,” said Vijayvargiya commenting on Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra.
