Kamlesh Shah, Congress MP from Kamal Nath’s hometown, joins BJP

Kamlesh Shah, a Congress MP from Kamal Nath’s hometown Chinderwara, joined the BJP on Friday.

Bhopal:

In a major setback for the Congress ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, three-time MP Kamlesh Shah from Amawara in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara district joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday.

Chhindwara, which will go to polls in the first phase on April 19, is the hometown of Congress stalwart and former chief minister Kamal Nath.

Kamlesh Shah’s joining the BJP was welcomed by the party’s national joint general secretary Shiv Prakash, chief minister Mohan Yadav and party president Vishnu Dutt Sharma.

The three-time MP with his wife Harrai Nagar Palika president Madhvi Shah and sister Kesar Netam, district panchayat member ) joined the Bharatiya Janata Party together.

A BJP leader said Kamlesh Shah and his family members joined the BJP as they were impressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s development work.

The event was attended by BJP’s Lok Sabha poll in-charge Mahendra Singh, joint in-charge Satish Upadhyaya and senior minister Kailash Vijayvargiya, among others.

Mr Shah won the parliamentary seat from Amawala in the 2013, 2018 and 2023 assembly elections.

Nakul Nath, the only Congress winner in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Madhya Pradesh, has filed nomination papers for Chhindwara, where his father Kamal Nath has represented nine terms in the Assembly.

Kamal Nath is currently the MLA from Chhindwara assembly seat.

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