Major Setback For Congress As Rajkumar Chauhan Quits Party After Denied Ticket From North West Delhi

Udit Raj is a BJP turncoat who joined Congress in 2019 after the saffron party denied him a ticket from the North West Delhi seat.

File photo of Rajkumar Chauhan with Rahul Gandhi.

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In another major setback to the Congress in Delhi amid the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, Rajkumar Chauhan, who served as a minister in the Sheila Dikshit government, has quit the party. According to sources, he was upset with the candidacy of Udit Raj from the North West Delhi seat.

Udit Raj is a BJP turncoat who won the seat on the saffron ticket in the 2014 general election. However, in 2019, he switched to the Congress after being denied the ticket by BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Congress Workers Protest Against 'Outsider' Udit Raj 

The grand old party on Monday conducted a press conference to introduce three Lok Sabha candidates for Delhi. However, the event was marred by protests staged by party workers who raised slogans against Udit Raj, whom they termed an "outsider".

Udit Raj, a BJP turncoat, has been nominated as Congress's North West Delhi candidate.

Congress, at the press conference, held at the party’s Delhi unit headquarters on Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg, introduced its candidates — J.P. Agarwal from Chandni Chowk and Kanhaiya Kumar from North East Delhi, and Udit Raj from North West Delhi.

Congress is fighting the Lok Sabha election in the national capital in alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party, which is contesting four seats.

Although the party workers did not raise slogans against Kumar, some of them also termed him an “outsider” since he had contested the 2019 election on a CPI ticket from Bihar's Begusarai, before joining the grand old party in 2021.

Addressing the press conference, Udit Raj stated that several works that he started during his tenure as the North West Delhi MP were stopped by the BJP in the past five years and that his first priority would be to resume those projects.