Fired from Congress, Barkha Shukla Singh joins BJP

Barkha Shukla joins BJP

New Delhi: Former Congress leader Barkha Shukla Singh who was expelled from the party for six years joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday. Barkha had attacked party vice-president Rahul Gandhi and Delhi unit president Ajay Maken and quit as local women's wing chief. "Rahul Gandhi is unfit to lead the party," she had said. She had met BJP's national Vice President and Delhi in-charge Shyam Jaju this afternoon. ALSO READ: I was forced to say so: Muslim woman on viral video against triple talaq The disciplinary committee of Congress' Delhi unit removed her for indulging in "anti-party activities" days ahead of the municipal polls. There were speculations that Barkha would join the BJP. Barkha, who had vowed not to quit the party but hit out at Rahul, saying the decision "proved" his "mental bankruptcy" and added that she will take legal recourse against it. There is an ongoing spree of Congress defections to BJP. Few days ago party's former Delhi unit chief Arvinder Singh Lovely had joined the saffron party. Maken broke down on ABP News’ show ‘Ghoshanapatra’ over Lovely’s exit but also said that the migration happened only because he (Lovely) kept his personal aspirations above political ideologies. BARKHA’S TIRADE AGAINST RAHUL "Senior-most leaders of the party are also of the view that Rahul Gandhi is mentally unfit to lead the party but choose not to say it because of reasons that are unknown to me." "The one pertinent question we need to ask today is why is Rahul Gandhi in hiding? Why is he afriad of meeting his own party members?" "He is only interested in sycophants and not leaders who reason, question and ask." "Party has lost several senior leaders for that reason." “Party workers are snubbed and their grievances aren’t being addressed.”