Chhattisgar: Congress suffers blow before polls as senior leader joins BJP
Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, Oct 13 (IBNS) : In a blow to the Congress a month ahead of the Assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, the party's state executive president Ram Dayal Uike on Saturday joined the BJP.
Uike, a tribal leader, who was a member of the BJP before joining the Congress, made his "ghar vapsi" (homecoming) at a formal programme in the presence of BJP chief Amit Shah, who is on a two-day visit to the state.
Uike was elected MLA of Pali Tanakhar in 2013 after winning with a margin of over 28,000 votes. He was appointed Congress Working President in January this year. Uike is a four-time lawmaker from Pali in Chhattisgarh.
The Congress has already suffered a setback in Chhattisgarh last month, when state party chief was caught in a sex CD controversy and was sent to jail.
18 of the 90 Assembly constituencies in Chhattisgarh will vote on November 12, including the Maoist-affected Bastar and Rajnandgaon districts. The second phase of polling is on November 20.
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