Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Rahul Kaswan, a Churu MP, resigns from the Lok Sabha and leaves the BJP to join the Congress
Rahul Kaswan, the current Member of Parliament from Churu, Rajasthan, formally joined the Congress on Monday, hours after announcing his resignation from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in the presence of party head Mallikarjun Kharge.
Kaswan announced on social media earlier in the day that he was leaving the BJP and the Lok Sabha as a member of parliament. “At this very moment, I am resigning from both the position of Member of Parliament and my primary membership in the Bharatiya Janata Party due to political reasons.”
He said on X, “I express my gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Amit Shah, and JP Nadda, the national president of the BJP, for giving me the opportunity to serve the Churu Lok Sabha family for 10 years.”
The Churu Member of Parliament has also resigned from office after the BJP refused to provide him a ticket for the next Lok Sabha elections.
“My family was all working in the area honestly and sincerely, but there came a point when I thought the BJP was not listening to me. After being officially welcomed into the party by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Kaswan said, “I felt that I would suffocate if I could not raise the issues of my farmer brothers.”
The BJP has selected Paralympian gold medallist Devendra Jhajharia as its candidate for Churu in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, taking Kaswan’s seat as the two-time MP. Shortly after the BJP revealed their candidates for 15 of Rajasthan’s 25 Lok Sabha seats, Kaswan switched to the Congress.
Since the general elections of 2004, the Kaswan family has consistently won the Churu parliamentary seat, making it a BJP stronghold. In the Lok Sabha elections of 2014 and 2019, BJP politician Ram Singh Kaswan won the seat for the saffron party, while his son Rahul Kaswan did the same in 2004 and 2009.
Kaswan’s departure from the BJP occurs one day after Haryana’s Lok Sabha MP, Brijendra Singh, left the party and joined the Congress, citing ideological and political disagreements on matters ranging from farmers to wrestlers’ protests to agniveers.
