Congressional leaders in Madhya Pradesh were embarrassed after a BJP worker was elected secretary of a district unit of his party’s youth wing in organizational elections this month.
While the Youth Congress leaders called it a cheap publicity stunt and blamed the BJP worker for his election to office, the BJP leaders raised questions against the electoral process in the party.
Harshit Singhai, who is said to support Rajya Sabha MP Jyotiraditya Scindia, left the Congress party in March to join the BJP.
After nine months, he was elected secretary of the Jabalpur North Assembly constituency of the MP Youth Congress. Elections for the MP Youth Congress were held between December 10 and 12. The results were announced on December 18. In the election, Singhai received 12 votes and was elected secretary.
MP Youth Congress election coordinator Maqsood Mirza said: “It’s a cheap BJP publicity stunt. Singhai submitted his nomination in March. Later, he joined BJP but reportedly did not withdraw his nomination. The electoral process took place online and no one paid attention as there were more than 1800 nominations and Singhai was not a popular leader.
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