The Congress MP from Singhbhum (Jharkhand), Geeta Koda, wife of former Jharkhand CM Madhu Koda, is likely to quit the Congress party and join the BJP on Monday, according to sources.
Hitting out at the DMK government a day after a prominent leader from the ruling ally Congress switched sides, the BJP's Tamil Nadu president K Annamalai on Sunday said the MK Stalin-led regime was facing public ire with each passing day.
In response to rumours that Kamal Nath, former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh and senior Congress leader, might switch to the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress leader Digvijaya Singh asserted on Tuesday that Kamal Nath's allegiance lies with Congress. He emphasized that Kamal Nath i
Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Chandra Pawar) leader Jayant Patil on Monday dismissed speculation of him joining the ruling BJP and said that he neither contacted any leader from the ruling party nor did they contact him.
Singhar told ANI on talks of the veteran to join BJP, "All of these are rumours. He (Kamal Nath) has never said that he is joining the BJP. He is a senior, former CM and an asset to the party. All the MLAs are with him. He (Nath) also has said several times that he is like a third son of
Former Odisha Congress MLA Anshuman Mohanty, who joined Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Friday after serving for a decade in the grand old party, said Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's vision of a new Odisha and his pro-poor activities prompted his switchover.
Amid speculations of some big Congress leaders giving thought to switching sides as the Opposition alliance stares at a collapse, media reports claimed that Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP from Punjab's Anandpur Sahib, Manish Tewari, is in touch with the BJP and can jump ship.
A post of a former Congress leader and BJP state spokesperson Narendra Saluja on X, ahead of Nath's arrival in Delhi, has given wings to the speculation.
"I would like to request that the news that is speculated are baseless...can you imagine Indira Gandhi's third son leaving Congress? Can't think about something like that even in dreams...," Patwari told reporters.
"Kamal Nath is in Chhindwara...I had a conversation with Kamal Nath last night. He is in Chhindwara. The person who started his political career with the Nehru-Gandhi family and he stood together when the entire Janata Party and the then central government were sending Indira Gandhi to ja
Congress MLA and former Rajasthan minister Mahendrajeet Singh Malviya on Friday lamented the grand old party's 'plight' amid speculations of him joining the ruling BJP.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena is likely to field Milind Deora, who recently switched from Congress severing decades-old family ties with the grand old party, as its Rajya Sabha candidate for the upcoming Biennial election.