Denied Ticket, BJP MLAs In Manipur Switch To Congress, Other Parties
NDTV
Manipur Assembly Elections: Protests raged across Manipur yesterday as the BJP announced candidates for the state's 60 assembly seats.
Leaders of the BJP not fielded in the coming assembly elections in Manipur are on their way out, their destination is the Congress, or any other party that would give them a ticket. A day after the announcement of the party's candidate list, sitting BJP MLA from Moirang Assembly Constituency, P Sarat Chandra Singh, joined the Congress with his supporters. Ningthoujam Biren, a former minister of the Sekmai assembly constituency, and Ningthoujam Joykumar Singh, also joined the Congress.
Sources in the Congress claimed another 12 BJP leaders have been in touch with them.
Protests raged across Manipur yesterday as the BJP announced candidates for the state's 60 assembly seats. Supporters set ablaze party flags, effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister N Biren Singh. Security had to be stepped up as party offices were ransacked in various parts of the state.
The BJP has given the tickets to leaders who joined after 2017. Ten out of 16 in this list are from the Congress, while 4 are from other parties.
