Former MPs Ricchpal Mirdha and Vijaypal Mirdha are among the replaced leaders.
Jaipur:
Several Congress leaders in Rajasthan, including former ministers Rajendra Yadav and Lal Chand Kataria, have joined the BJP ahead of Sunday’s Lok Sabha elections.
Leaders such as former Congress MPs Ricchpal Mirdha, Vijaypal Mirdha and Khiladi Bairwa, former independent MP Alok Beniwal, former state Congress chief Seva Dal Suresh Chaudhary, Rampal Sharma and Riju Jhunjhunwala have also joined the ruling party in the state.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma, BJP president CP Joshi and Union Minister Bhupendra Yadav welcomed them into the party at the state headquarters of the state.
Mr Kataria and Mr Yadav were ministers in the previous Congress government led by Ashok Gehlot. Mr. Kataria was also the Union Minister of State in the previous UPA government.
Ricchpal Mirdha is the uncle of former Congress MP Jyoti Mirdha, who joined the BJP ahead of the 2023 assembly elections.
Jyoti Mirdha has been named as the BJP candidate from Nagaur for the Lok Sabha elections. Vijaypal Mirdha was the son of Ricchpal Mirdha.
The Mirdar family is considered politically influential in Jats-ruled Nagaur and nearby areas.
Apart from this, former BJP MP Randhir Singh Bhindar, who earlier broke away from the party and formed his own Janata Party, has also merged with the BJP.
Alok Beniwal is the son of former Gujarat Governor Kamla Beniwal.
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