Shock for Congress as top leader joins BJP
posted on Oct 20, 2016 @ 4:04PM
Former Congress state president of Uttar Pradesh and MLA Rita Bahuguna Joshi joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. She joined the BJP in the presence of party president Amit Shah. Joshi reached the BJP office at Ashoka Road on Thursday afternoon and addressed a press conference in the presence of party president Amit Shah and other senior leaders. A prominent Brahmin face of the party, Joshi had served as Congress party UP president between 2007-2012. As reported earlier on Monday, Joshi was reportedly unhappy with “being sidelined” in the party. Besides that, her nonavailability to the media for the last few days has only added fuel to the fire. Joshi had led the party in the last assembly pollsin the state in which Congress came a poor fourth. State BJP leaders when contacted said a final call on this has to be taken by the party's central leadership. A top source in the Congress said, "We have no indication of her joining the BJP, but we will speak to her. She is a senior leader."