Key Takeaways
- The Madhya Pradesh BJP MLA Virendra Raghuvanshi resigned, alleging corruption and party indifference.
- He criticized the influence of Jyotiraditya Scindia and accused the party of posting corrupt officials in the Gwalior‑Chambal region.
- His departure comes just months before the Madhya Pradesh State elections, potentially impacting BJP’s prospects.
On Thursday, August 31, Madhya Pradesh BJP MLA, Virendra Raghuvanshi, resigned from the ruling party in the state, just three months ahead of the Madhya Pradesh State elections. He has cited indifference of the party towards him, and the attitude of the leaders, who came to the BJP along with Jyotiraditya Scindia from the Congress, who he said, were creating rifts in the MP BJP.
Raghuvanshi, the sitting BJP MLA from the Kolaras constituency in the Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh, said he repeatedly informed MP CM Shivraj Singh Chauhan and senior party leaders about his ‘pained’ feelings over the BJP’s indifference.
He added that nobody paid heed to his concerns.
He sent his resignation letter from the party’s primary membership to MP BJP Chief, Vishnu Dutt Sharma. A disgruntled Raghuvanshi highlighted how BJP workers like him were being ignored in the Gwalior-Chambal region, in which the Shivpuri district falls. Further, he questioned Union Aviation Minister, Jyotiraditya Scindia’s alleged silence on the non-waiver of farmers’ loans in MP, after the BJP regained power, whereas he used to target the Congress on the same issue.
Raghuvanshi also predicted that all the leaders who jumped ships from the Congress to the BJP, would prove ‘fatal’ to the latter, in the upcoming state assembly polls. In the last few months, about 6 loyalists of Scindia, who had quit the Congress along with him to join the ruling party, have already left the BJP and rejoined the Congress. Virendra Raghuvanshi, nonetheless, is the first sitting BJP MLA, and a sincere BJP leader who has quit the ruling party alleging that he has been mistreated.
He has also alleged corruption, stating that corrupt officials are being posted in his region, who were creating hindrances in developmental works there.
