Ratna Singh joins BJP

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Ratna Singh joins BJP

Wednesday, 16 October 2019 | PNS | Lucknow


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In a big jolt to the Congress ahead of assembly bypolls, former MP and senior leader of the party, Rajkumari Ratna Singh, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in the presence of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in Pratapgarh during an election rally on Tuesday.
Rajkumari Ratna Singh, 60, is the daughter of former external affairs minister Dinesh Singh, who was one of the closest associates of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and other members of the Gandhi family..
The announcement of Ratna Singh joining the BJP was made at the election meeting held at Gadhwa Inter College Grounds in Pratapgarh, where Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath addressed the election rally.
Pratapgarh is one of the 11 assembly constituencies where bypolls will be held on October 21.
“Ratna Singh is a big name of this area as she has won Lok Sabha elections in 1996, 1999 and 2009 from Pratapgarh on Congress ticket,” BJP state president Swatantra Dev Singh said.
In 2019, Rajkumari Ratna Singh had contested election but lost to Akshay Pratap Singh ‘Gopalji’, a close aide of Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiyya.
The former Congress MP figures in a long list of Congress leaders considered close to Gandhi-Nehru family to have switched over to the BJP in UP. These leaders include Sanjay Sinh, his wife Amita Sinh and lawmaker Dinesh Pratap Singh, among several others.
In Rae Bareli, two Congress legislators, Aditi Singh and Rakesh Singh, have already turned rebels and it is a matter of time before they formally join the BJP. Both the legislators had defied the Congress whip and participated in the special assembly session on October 2.
Sources say Ratna Singh is annoyed at the style of functioning of Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as she has been sidelined in the party.

 

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