NEW DELHI:
Congress
‘s
Indore
candidate
Akshay Kanti Bamb
, on Monday withdrew his nomination and joined the saffron party.
The development was confirmed after Madhya Pradesh minister and BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya posted a picture of Bamb and wrote: ‘welcome to the party’.
First Surat, now Indore?
Congress on April 22 suspended its Surat LS candidate Nilesh Kumbhani for six years, accusing him of “negligence or collusion with BJP” even as he stayed “incommunicado” and released a video pledging allegiance to the party.
Kumbhani’s nomination was rejected on April 22 after his three proposers claimed their signatures were not theirs.
The nomination of Suresh Padsala, his substitute candidate, was also invalidated on the same grounds. The rejections paved the way for BJP’s Mukesh Dalal to be declared the uncontested winner.