MP BJP Leader Padma Shukla Leaves Party and Joins Congress

She said that working with Madhya Pradesh minister Sanjay Pathak was hurting her.

File photo of Padma Shukla.

(Photo Courtesy: Padma Shukla/Facebook)

Resigning from her primary membership of the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), Madhya Pradesh Social Welfare Board Chief Padma Shukla on Monday, 24 September, joined the Congress party.

According to ANI, in a letter to BJP state president Rakesh Singh, Shukla said:

I have been a primary member of the party since 1980 and have discharged my duties accordingly. I am upset because of the negligence and exploitation of the party workers in Vijayraghavgarh constituency post 2014 by-polls. Thus, I am resigning from the primary membership of the party.

She also told ANI that working with Madhya Pradesh minister Sanjay Pathak was hurting her and damaging the self respect of her workers.

I tried to work with Madhya Pradesh minister Sanjay Pathak for 2 years, but that seemed impossible. He used to humiliate BJP workers. It was hurting me and damaging self-respect of my workers.

Shukla also stepped down from the post of state Social Welfare Board chief, reported NDTV.

(With ANI, NDTV inputs.)