After 5-year stint with Congress, Manvendra Singh back with BJP

Jaipur: Former BJP MP Manvendra Singh, son of former union minister Jaswant Singh, returned to the saffron party on Friday following a five-year stint with the Congress in Barmer.

Manvendra, who had switched to Congress in October 2018, joined the BJP ahead of Friday’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally in Barmer. He also shared the stage with other leaders of the BJP during the PM's rally.

'Today I rejoined the BJP family and party workers in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Bhai Modi at Adarsh Stadium in Barmer. We are all committed to realising the public welfare policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the resolution of ‘Vikshit Bharat’,' he said in a Facebook post.

Manvendra was elected as the BJP MLA from Barmer's Sheo assembly constituency in December 2013.

When the BJP denied a ticket to Jaswant Singh, who then contested the Lok Sabha election as an independent and lost, Manvendra turned rebel and campaigned against the party’s candidate in support of his father.

Manvendra was suspended from the party ahead of the 2018 assembly elections.

He joined Congress who gave him a ticket for the Jhalrapatan assembly seat against the then-chief minister Vasundhara Raje, which he lost. PTI SDA SKY SKY