Manish Khanduri, son of BJP veteran and former Uttarakhand chief minister Bhuvan Chandra Khanduri, has joined the Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) only a day after resigning from the Congress. The becoming a member of ceremony occurred on the BJP’s metropolis workplace within the presence of Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, state BJP president Mahendra Bhatt, and social gathering in-charge for Uttarakhand Dushyant Gautam.
Welcoming Manish Khanduri to the BJP, Mahendra Bhatt highlighted the numerous contributions of his father, Main Basic (retired) Bhuvan Chandra Khanduri, within the growth of Uttarakhand as a Union minister and two-term chief minister of the state, information company PTI reported. Bhatt expressed his gratitude, stating, “We welcome him as he has now come to his family, the state BJP chief stated.”
देहरादून भाजपा महानगर कार्यालय में राष्ट्रीय महामंत्री व लोकसभा चुनाव प्रभारी श्री @dushyanttgautam जी, मुख्यमंत्री श्री @PushkarDhami जी एवं प्रदेश अध्यक्ष श्री @mahendrabhatbjp जी ने कांग्रेस के वरिष्ठ नेता श्री @ManishKhanduri1 जी को पार्टी की सदस्यता ग्रहण करवाई। pic.twitter.com/jXur0cLUPN
— BJP Uttarakhand (@BJP4UK) March 9, 2024
Upon becoming a member of the BJP, Manish Khanduri expressed his confidence within the social gathering’s imaginative and prescient for nation-building and praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s management. He said, “The BJP is the one political social gathering that gives a platform from which one can contribute to nation-building, and Narendra Modi is the one chief able to steering the nation on the trail of growth”, as quoted by PTI.
Addressing questions from reporters, Khanduri clarified that he didn’t be part of the social gathering in search of a ticket to contest elections however moderately to function an peculiar social gathering employee.
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Manish Khanduri’s Background and Resignation from Congress
Manish Khanduri had entered politics in 2019 by becoming a member of the Congress, which fielded him from Uttarakhand’s Garhwal (Pauri) Lok Sabha seat within the basic elections that yr. Nevertheless, he misplaced the seat to Tirath Singh Rawat by over three lakh votes.
His resolution to resign from the Congress on Friday raised questions on his motivations. State Congress president Karan Mahara said that the social gathering gave him full respect and talked about his earlier ticket to contest the Lok Sabha polls. Nevertheless, he urged that varied components, together with household pressures, might need influenced Khanduri’s resignation, PTI reported.
“Many issues occur. Some instances there may be household strain too. His father is a senior BJP chief and sister the speaker of the Uttarakhand meeting. However the precise reason for his resignation will be discovered solely after I speak to him,” he had stated, as quoted by PTI.