<p>Ahead of the Madhya Pradesh assembly polls due this year-end, Congress MLA Sachin Birla on Sunday took the BJP's membership and formally joined the ruling party.</p>.<p>The first-time MLA from Barwaha constituency in Khargone district, Birla (40) took the BJP's membership during a function at the party's state office here in the presence of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and MP party unit chief VD Sharma.</p>.BJP's Vijayvargiya announces cash reward for party functionaries in polling booths where Congress draws blank.<p>He crossed over to the BJP in October 2021, but did not give up membership of the legislature. The Congress did not expel him either.</p>.<p>In the 2018 assembly elections, Birla won the Barwaha seat due to the support of Gurjar voters and other backward communities.</p>
<p>Ahead of the Madhya Pradesh assembly polls due this year-end, Congress MLA Sachin Birla on Sunday took the BJP's membership and formally joined the ruling party.</p>.<p>The first-time MLA from Barwaha constituency in Khargone district, Birla (40) took the BJP's membership during a function at the party's state office here in the presence of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and MP party unit chief VD Sharma.</p>.BJP's Vijayvargiya announces cash reward for party functionaries in polling booths where Congress draws blank.<p>He crossed over to the BJP in October 2021, but did not give up membership of the legislature. The Congress did not expel him either.</p>.<p>In the 2018 assembly elections, Birla won the Barwaha seat due to the support of Gurjar voters and other backward communities.</p>