New Delhi: CR Kesavan, the good grandson of famous freedom fighter and India’s final governor normal C Rajagopalachari, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday. Kesavan, who was within the Congress earlier, joined the social gathering within the presence of Union Minister VK Singh and BJP chief spokesperson Anil Baluni within the nationwide capital. After becoming a member of the saffron camp, he heaped reward on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for ushering in a ‘tectonic’ transformation in India together with his people-centric insurance policies, and corruption-free and inclusive governance.
CR Kesavan, who hails from Tamil Nadu, stated that nationwide safety has been given primacy and India’s historical past and traditions are being celebrated with numerous occasions, referring to the current ‘Kashi-Tamil Samagam’. He additionally praised the BJP for the ‘deep respects’ it has for the nation’s founding fathers and moms. Kesavan lauded the Modi authorities’s dealing with of the Covid-19 pandemic and credited it for India’s rise in international stature.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi`s corruption free governance and reform led inclusive growth agenda have reworked India from a fragile financial system to the fifth largest on the planet, he stated.
Speaking on the event, VK Singh cited Rajagopalachari’s contribution to the nation and alleged that he was ‘sidelined’ after independence and ‘invisiblised’ from historical past as ‘one household tried to say they did every thing’.
Shri C.R. Kesavan, great-grandson of the final Governor-General of India, C. Rajagopalachari, joins BJP on the Party Headquarters in New Delhi.
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Kesavan might be a robust voice within the BJP and likewise within the politics of Tamil Nadu, he stated.
Kesavan then additionally met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP nationwide president JP Nadda in Delhi.
Hon. BJP National President Shri @JPNadda Ji welcomed Shri CR Kesavan Ji into the @BJP4India & prolonged his finest needs to him within the presence of Home Minister Shri @AmitShah Ji. pic.twitter.com/kQrPoRqpwJ
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#WATCH | CR Kesavan, former Congress chief and great-grandson of India’s first Indian Governor-General C Rajagopalachari meets Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP nationwide president JP Nadda on the latter’s residence in Delhi. pic.twitter.com/RJ07NIzA4F
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Kesavan had resigned from Congress in February this yr, saying that he has not even seen vestiges of the values that made him work for the social gathering with dedication for over 20 years.
In his resignation letter addressed to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, he stated he may now not concur with ‘what the social gathering symbolises, stands for or seeks to propagate’.
“I can no longer in clear conscience say that I concur with what party currently symbolises, stands for nor seeks to propagate. This is exactly why I had declined an organisational responsibility at the national level and refrained from participating in the Bharat Jodo Yatra,” he had written.
The former Congress chief additionally thanked Sonia Gandhi for the tasks assigned to him saying that he solid cherished friendships within the social gathering that can stay.
CR Kesavan, Anil Antony, Kiran Kumar Reddy joined BJP this week
In the previous couple of days, folks from completely different southern states, the place the BJP stays a marginal drive, have been inducted into the social gathering.
Anil Antony, the son of veteran Congress chief AK Antony of Kerala, and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, additionally within the Congress earlier, have joined the saffron social gathering previously two days.
Their induction comes because the social gathering goals to spice up its presence in southern India forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
