MUMBAI: Former senior Congress leader Kripa Shankar Singh will join BJP on Wednesday in presence of leader of opposition Devendra Fadnavis and State BJP president Chandrakant Dada Patil. “I am joining BJP, my entry is unconditional, I have not asked for any position in BJP,” Singh told TOI.
According to reports, after Singh quit the Congress in 2019 over its decision to oppose NDA government’s policy on Jammu and Kashmir, he was looking for political rehabilitation. He had three options— to rejoin Congress or join NCP, Shiv Sena or BJP. After prolonged deliberations, he decided to join BJP.
Sixty-nine-year old Singh took up the organizational post in Congress in 1988 under the leadership of the then State Congress President Pratibha Patil. He was first nominated to the legislative council in 1994 and elected to the legislative assembly in 1999.
