Radhika Khera joins BJP
Amid the Lok Sabha elections 2024, Radhika Khera, who had resigned from Congress a few days ago and actor Shekhar Suman joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday.
Radhika Khera and Shekhar Suman took membership of the party at the BJP headquarters in Delhi.
#WATCH | Former Congress National Media Coordinator, Radhika Khera joins BJP at the party headquarters in Delhi pic.twitter.com/ZnYeVvtFAA
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All India Congress Committee (AICC) spokesperson Khera announced her resignation from the Congress on Sunday, citing an alleged plot against her. She added that she was punished for going to the Ayodhya Ram Mandir.
Khera had also levelled serious allegations against Chairman of the Communication Department of Chhattisgarh Congress Sushil Anand Shukla.
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After joining the BJP, Khera praised the saffron party for their backing and charged the Congress of being anti-Hindu.
Radhika Khera thanks BJP
Radhika also thanked the BJP for the support she got from the party.
“With the treatment I suffered on the land of Kaushalya Mata for being a follower of Ram and for having seen Ram Lalla, I would never have made it to this place if it weren’t for the Modi government, the BJP government. The Congress of today is anti-Ram and anti-Hindu; it is not the Congress of Mahatma Gandhi,” she said.
Radhika’s resignation letter to Congress
Radhika Khera said in her resignation letter to Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge that she was being criticized by other members of the party for her inability to control her desire to visit the Ram Temple and see the idol of Ram Lalla.
Before then, a video of Khera complaining about being disrespected had gone viral. She was clearly unhappy. She is heard accusing an unidentified person, saying that no one in the party is respected, particularly women who are elected to office.
She went on to recount an event that happened on April 30 and said that she was verbally attacked in “words I never thought existed” by Sushil Anand, the chairperson of the Chhattisgarh Congress unit information wing, and a few other people. According to reports, the men briefly imprisoned her in a room with a few more keeping guard in case she tried to flee.
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Shekhar Suman also joins BJP
Senior TV and Film Actor Shekhar Suman also joined the BJP.
This will be Shekhar Suman’s second innings in politics. He also contested the 2009 Lok Sabha elections from Patna Sahib seat on Congress ticket but he had to face defeat at the hands of BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha.
