Kharge seeks time from Modi to explain Congress ‘Nyay Patra’
In the letter, the Congress president pointed out to the prime minister that he was being “misinformed” about things that are not even written in the party’s manifesto.
The Congress suffered a big jolt in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday when a loyalist of Ghulam Nabi Azad and a former minister and senior vice-president of the party, Sham Lal Sharma, joined the BJP.
Nirmal Singh, Speaker of the J&K Assembly, Avinash Rai Khanna, BJP vice-president and in-charge of J&K, Ravinder Raina, state BJP chief and Kavinder Gupta, former deputy chief minister, were present at the joining ceremony at the BJP office here.
Sharma represented the Akhnoor Assembly segment and was a minister in the National Conference—Congress coalition government till 2014 and his elder brother Madan Lal is in the Congress and was a member of the Lok Sabha representing the Jammu seat.
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Sharma had resigned from the post of senior vice-president of the PCC last year to protest against his interests being neglected by the party leadership.
Sharma was expected to join the BJP during the recent visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Akhnoor but this did not materialise as the Congress leadership had reportedly made a commitment for an important assignment in the party to him.
State BJP chief Ravinder Raina said that PCC members Sham Lal Chaudhary and Subhash Langar have also joined the BJP with their supporters.
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