Ahead of the Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, a former BJP MLA Sunil Mishra on Sunday joined the Congress in Madhya Pradesh. Mishra was welcomed to the Congress by its Madhya Pradesh chief Kamal Nath.

The development comes a day after Rahul Gandhi-led party’s Chhattisgargh working president and MLA Ramdayal Uike joined the saffron party in presence of Amit Shah.

While the poll bugle has been sounded in five States and mode code of conduct has been promulgated, the process of bringing more and more prominent leaders to the party fold has been started by leader of both prominent parties- BJP and Congress.

Former BJP candidate from Gotegaon Shekhar Chaudhary had joined the Congress in the presence of PCC Chief Kamal Nath on Saturday. Similarly, in past couple of weeks, five Congress leaders including former minister Ram Shankar Choudhary have joined the BJP.

The elections dates for five states— Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram— are out and many such political movements are expected ahead of the polls.

Similar things have happened in earlier assembly elections where many political leaders had switched their sides in Karnataka.

According to media reports, over 50 leaders had crossed over to other political parties ahead of Karnataka elections earlier this year.

Madhya Pradesh will vote on November 28 while Chattisgarh will have votings in two phases: November 12 and 20. The results will be declared for all the five states on December 11.