In a major setback to Congress ahead of the upcoming state assembly polls scheduled to be held next month in Madhya Pradesh, its leader Bhanu Thakur joined BJP after he was denied a ticket from the Bhander assembly constituency in Datia district. Thakur took the membership of BJP in the presence of state home minister Narottam Mishra in the district on Friday.

After taking the membership, he told ANI, “Today, I have taken membership of BJP under the guidance of Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia and Narottam Mishra. We will try our best. We will also be successful in forming a BJP government in 2023 with a full majority.” Thakur further alleged that because of former chief minister and Congress’ Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh, he left Congress and joined BJP. “I resigned from the party because of Digvijaya Singh. I was very hurt.”