Niece of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Karuna Shukla, today joined the Congress and said that she would work to ensure the party's victory in the upcoming general elections.
"Congress party is democratic, works with people, I appreciate that and therefore decided to join them," she said after joining the party," Shukla was quoted as saying by ANI.
Karuna Shukla. PTI.
"After Atalji, the BJP's disparity between actions and words widened. I will strengthened Congress and make it win 2014 elections," she said.
Shukla had quit the BJP in October last year and had alleged she had been neglected by the party's senior leadership.
A former Lok Sabha MP from Chhattisgarh, she was also formerly the head of the national women's wing of the party. She had contested the 2009 elections but had lost to Congress candidate Chandra Das Mahant.
Shukla had also reportedly termed Modi's appointment as the BJP's prime ministerial candidate as being unconstitutional.
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