Ghanshyam Tiwari returns to the BJP
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Veteran Rajasthan chief had left the social gathering over variations with former CM Vasundhara Raje.
Veteran chief and former Minister Ghanshyam Tiwari rejoined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Jaipur on Saturday, two-and-a-half years after he left the social gathering over variations with the then Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and the social gathering’s central management. Mr. Tiwari had floated a brand new outfit, Bharat Vahini Party, forward of the 2018 Rajasthan Assembly election.
A six-time BJP MLA and thought of a hardliner, Mr. Tiwari had prolonged help to the Congress after his social gathering misplaced all the 63 Assembly seats it contested in the 2018 election. He had shared dais with Congress chief Rahul Gandhi at a operate in Jaipur and mentioned it was vital to help the social gathering “for [the] protection of democratic values”.
On Saturday, the 72-year-old chief, who was considered one of the founders of the BJP in the State in 1980, instructed reporters at the BJP State headquarters in Jaipur that he had not joined Congress or change into a major member of the social gathering. “I simply shared the stage in a programme of the Congress before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections,” he mentioned.
Mr. Tiwari mentioned he was “completely committed” to the BJP’s ideology and his “heart and soul” have been with the Bharatiya Jan Sangh and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. “I had to float the Bharat Vahini Party owing to some circumstances… I did not take part in the protests organised by the Congress against the Citizenship Amendment Act and abrogation of Article 370.”
Mr. Tiwari was the Education Minister in the 2003-08 Vasundhara Raje authorities and the Deputy Leader of Opposition throughout the earlier Congress regime. He had been at loggerheads with the Ms. Raje-led dispensation over the points similar to farmers’ plight, corruption and reservation for greater castes.
BJP State president Satish Poonia mentioned Mr. Tiwari’s return to the social gathering fold was not an exception. “Leaders like Uma Bharti, Kalyan Singh and Babulal Marandi joined back after the leaving the BJP,” he mentioned.
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