Ex-NCP man Ramvir Singh Bidhuri joins BJP

NEW DELHI: Former Delhi NCP President Ramvir Singh Bidhuri today joined BJP along with three NCP councillors in the run up to the assembly polls.


The four leaders joined the party in the presence of BJP president Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari, who is in-charge of Delhi elections.

Welcoming them into the party fold, Singh said Bidhuri's entry has "strengthened" the party in Delhi and "no force can stop BJP from coming to power in the state in the next elections".

Gadkari said in the coming days, several other leaders from different parties would join the party as the people in general are "disillusioned" with the UPA government.

BJP leaders like Vijay Kumar Malhotra and Vijay Goel were present on the occasion.

Bidhuri, a Gujjar community leader who was reported to have joined the Congress earlier this month, slammed the Sheila Dikshit government for "high power and water tariff and the failure of the government to rehabilitate lakhs of slum-dwellers evicted during the Commonwealth Games".

Blaming UPA government for the state of the economy and the condition of farmers, he charged that the government is eyeing the gold in Tirupati Temple as it is planning to mortgage the yellow metal to recover from the economic crisis.

The three councillors from NCP, who joined along with Bidhuri, are Dharamveer Awana, Timsy Kasana and Phholkali Narwaal.