By way of PTI
RAIPUR: An afternoon after resigning from the Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration (BJP), veteran tribal chief Nand Kumar Sai on Monday joined the ruling Congress in Chhattisgarh the place the Meeting polls due this year-end.
Addressing mediapersons after becoming a member of the Congress, Sai mentioned it was once a difficult resolution for him to give up the BJP and claimed it was once not the celebration that it was “throughout the time of Atal ji and Advani ji.”
Sai submitted his resignation to state BJP president Arun Sao on Sunday and claimed his colleagues had been hatching conspiracies and levelling false allegations to tarnish his symbol, which had left him deeply harm.
The 77-year-old chief, a former three-term Lok Sabha member and three-time MLA, served because the BJP’s state president in each Chhattisgarh and undivided Madhya Pradesh prior to now and has really extensive affect in tribal-dominated portions of Surguja department (northern Chhattisgarh).
He joined the Congress on Monday within the presence of Leader Minister Bhupesh Baghel, the celebration’s state leader Mohan Markam and ministers at Rajiv Bhawan, the celebration state headquarters right here.
Chhattisgarh: Tribal chief Nand Kumar Sai joins Congress after quitting BJP !
An afternoon after quitting the BJP, veteran tribal chief Nand Kumar Sai on Monday joined the ruling Congress in Chhattisgarh. Former two-time Lok Sabha MP and three-time MLA, served because the BJP’s state… %.twitter.com/sgVFhvoEKP
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Sai mentioned, “The BJP’s shape has modified. It was once a difficult resolution of my existence (to give up the BJP) as I used to be related to it because the Jana Sangh time. I’ve labored with Atal ji (former high minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee), Advani ji, Sushma Swaraj ji and different senior leaders and adopted them.”
“The celebration is not in that shape which it was throughout the time of Atal ji and Advani ji. The cases appear to have modified,” he claimed.
Sai mentioned ahead of quitting, he was once no longer protecting any place within the BJP and was once an strange employee.
“I are not looking for any put up. Although they do not give a put up within the celebration, they may be able to no less than ask how celebration affairs will have to be operationalised. I didn’t have any downside with the celebration. The celebration isn’t vital, however the vital factor is that everybody (celebration participants) will have to paintings in combination for the typical other folks,” he mentioned.
“I determined to enroll in the Congress as it’s been doing excellent paintings below the management of Leader Minister Bhupesh Baghel ji,” Sai mentioned.
In Baghel govt, efforts are being made for the uplift of deficient, backward, tribals and all sections, he added.
When newshounds requested former state leader minister and senior BJP chief Raman Singh if the celebration would undergo a loss, he mentioned each time a senior employee quits, the organisation faces a loss.
“The celebration has all the time revered Sai. He was once the Lok Sabha member. He was once additionally despatched to the Rajya Sabha. He additionally changed into chairperson of the Nationwide Fee for Scheduled Tribes (NCST). Even after that he has taken this sort of resolution,” Singh mentioned.
“He (Sai) is a senior chief and he is aware of the whole lot about politics. I specific my very best needs to him for becoming a member of the brand new workforce,” Singh mentioned.
Sai, a outstanding tribal face of the celebration who hails from north Chhattisgarh, was once first elected because the Janata Birthday celebration MLA in 1977 from Tapkara seat (now in Jashpur district) in Madhya Pradesh.
In 1980, he was once elected as BJP’s Raigarh district unit leader.
He was once elected because the BJP MLA from Tapkara in 1985 and 1998.
He was once elected to the Lok Sabha from Raigarh in 1989, 1996 and 2004 and the Rajya Sabha in 2009 and 2010.
Sai was once Chhattisgarh BJP president from 2003-05 and MP BJP leader from 1997 to 2000.
He was once first chief of opposition within the Chhattisgarh Meeting after the state was once carved out from MP in November 2000.
Sai was once appointed because the NCST chairperson in 2017.
He was once on the subject of past due BJP chief Lakhiram Agarwal and the duo had performed a a very powerful function within the status quo of the saffron celebration’s foothold in Chhattisgarh.
When the Meeting elections had been held for the primary time in Chhattisgarh in 2003, Sai determined to contest towards then Leader Minister Ajit Jogi from Marwahi seat as an alternative of his conventional seat Tapkara.
Even though Sai tasted defeat, the BJP shaped then govt within the state.
Sai has regularly grabbed limelight for criticising more than a few choices of the former 15-year-long Raman Singh-led BJP govt within the state.
RAIPUR: An afternoon after resigning from the Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration (BJP), veteran tribal chief Nand Kumar Sai on Monday joined the ruling Congress in Chhattisgarh the place the Meeting polls due this year-end.
Addressing mediapersons after becoming a member of the Congress, Sai mentioned it was once a difficult resolution for him to give up the BJP and claimed it was once not the celebration that it was “throughout the time of Atal ji and Advani ji.”
Sai submitted his resignation to state BJP president Arun Sao on Sunday and claimed his colleagues had been hatching conspiracies and levelling false allegations to tarnish his symbol, which had left him deeply harm.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
The 77-year-old chief, a former three-term Lok Sabha member and three-time MLA, served because the BJP’s state president in each Chhattisgarh and undivided Madhya Pradesh prior to now and has really extensive affect in tribal-dominated portions of Surguja department (northern Chhattisgarh).
He joined the Congress on Monday within the presence of Leader Minister Bhupesh Baghel, the celebration’s state leader Mohan Markam and ministers at Rajiv Bhawan, the celebration state headquarters right here.
Chhattisgarh: Tribal chief Nand Kumar Sai joins Congress after quitting BJP !
An afternoon after quitting the BJP, veteran tribal chief Nand Kumar Sai on Monday joined the ruling Congress in Chhattisgarh. Former two-time Lok Sabha MP and three-time MLA, served because the BJP’s state… %.twitter.com/sgVFhvoEKP
— Vijay Thottathil (@vijaythottathil) Would possibly 1, 2023
Sai mentioned, “The BJP’s shape has modified. It was once a difficult resolution of my existence (to give up the BJP) as I used to be related to it because the Jana Sangh time. I’ve labored with Atal ji (former high minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee), Advani ji, Sushma Swaraj ji and different senior leaders and adopted them.”
“The celebration is not in that shape which it was throughout the time of Atal ji and Advani ji. The cases appear to have modified,” he claimed.
Sai mentioned ahead of quitting, he was once no longer protecting any place within the BJP and was once an strange employee.
“I are not looking for any put up. Although they do not give a put up within the celebration, they may be able to no less than ask how celebration affairs will have to be operationalised. I didn’t have any downside with the celebration. The celebration isn’t vital, however the vital factor is that everybody (celebration participants) will have to paintings in combination for the typical other folks,” he mentioned.
“I determined to enroll in the Congress as it’s been doing excellent paintings below the management of Leader Minister Bhupesh Baghel ji,” Sai mentioned.
In Baghel govt, efforts are being made for the uplift of deficient, backward, tribals and all sections, he added.
When newshounds requested former state leader minister and senior BJP chief Raman Singh if the celebration would undergo a loss, he mentioned each time a senior employee quits, the organisation faces a loss.
“The celebration has all the time revered Sai. He was once the Lok Sabha member. He was once additionally despatched to the Rajya Sabha. He additionally changed into chairperson of the Nationwide Fee for Scheduled Tribes (NCST). Even after that he has taken this sort of resolution,” Singh mentioned.
“He (Sai) is a senior chief and he is aware of the whole lot about politics. I specific my very best needs to him for becoming a member of the brand new workforce,” Singh mentioned.
Sai, a outstanding tribal face of the celebration who hails from north Chhattisgarh, was once first elected because the Janata Birthday celebration MLA in 1977 from Tapkara seat (now in Jashpur district) in Madhya Pradesh.
In 1980, he was once elected as BJP’s Raigarh district unit leader.
He was once elected because the BJP MLA from Tapkara in 1985 and 1998.
He was once elected to the Lok Sabha from Raigarh in 1989, 1996 and 2004 and the Rajya Sabha in 2009 and 2010.
Sai was once Chhattisgarh BJP president from 2003-05 and MP BJP leader from 1997 to 2000.
He was once first chief of opposition within the Chhattisgarh Meeting after the state was once carved out from MP in November 2000.
Sai was once appointed because the NCST chairperson in 2017.
He was once on the subject of past due BJP chief Lakhiram Agarwal and the duo had performed a a very powerful function within the status quo of the saffron celebration’s foothold in Chhattisgarh.
When the Meeting elections had been held for the primary time in Chhattisgarh in 2003, Sai determined to contest towards then Leader Minister Ajit Jogi from Marwahi seat as an alternative of his conventional seat Tapkara.
Even though Sai tasted defeat, the BJP shaped then govt within the state.
Sai has regularly grabbed limelight for criticising more than a few choices of the former 15-year-long Raman Singh-led BJP govt within the state.
