Top leaders of AAP join BJP after visit of Arvind Kejriwal, Bhagwant Mann in Gujarat
India Today
A day after Arvind Kejriwal and Bhagwant Mann visited Gujarat, top leaders from AAP joined the BJP.
A day after Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann visited Gujarat, top leaders and workers from the party joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
As many as 150 leaders and workers of AAP joined the BJP. Several leaders and workers from Congress too joined the BJP.
Arvind Kejriwal and Bhagwant Mann were on a two-day visit to Gujarat where they held a roadshow, visited a local temple, Gandhi ashram and conducted meetings. They left Gujarat on Sunday evening. On Monday, leaders and workers from AAP party joined the BJP at the party's state office in Kamalam in Gandhinagar.
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Speaking on the occasion, state BJP's state general secretary Pradipsinh Vaghela said, "Delhi CM and Punjab CM might have not reached their home or had food, huge number of people from their party joined the BJP. This clearly shows that they can't fool people of Gujarat, their visit does not mean anything to people of Gujarat. There are blessings of Gujarat's people to the BJP. In just five days of the AAP government in Punjab, there was a huge incident of lathicharge on farmers."
Vaghela, while addressing the people who joined the BJP said, "Today, when you left AAP and Congress, they will say that you people are of no use, but let me tell you, for the development of Gujarat, you are very useful and welcomed in the BJP. For long time, there is BJP's government in Gujarat because people of Gujarat have faith in us and mainly leadership of our Prime Minister Narendra Modi."
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