UP Assembly elections: BJP president Amit Shah amassing backstabbers using his clout, says Raj Babbar

With the UP assembly elections around the corner, political poaching has begun in every party, with leaders from SP, BSP, BJP and Congress changing camps according to their needs.

Yesterday, when former UP Congress President and Lucknow MLA Rita Bahuguna left the Congress and joined BJP, the current UP Congress President and Rajya Sabha MP Raj Babbar criticised her and said that the BJP is busy collecting backstabbers from every party. Talking to India Today, Babbar said that the BJP heavyweight president's one-point programme was to collect these backstabbers from every state in his party and is using his heavy weight for this purpose.

RITA BAHUGUNA REPEATS HER FAMILY'S HISTORY: RAJ BABBAR

Babbar said that Rita Bahuguna, who has been a history professor, has only repeated her family's history and this is the fourth or fifth such change of faith in her family. He said that we were told that she was unwell and being sensitive to her health, the party leadership trusted her word instead of the media. He said that the Congress was not affected by Rita's brother Vijay Bahuguna's defection and it won't be affected by her defection either.

AGRA WOMEN CONGRESS CHAIRMAN BURNS RITA'S EFFIGY

Agra Women Congress Chairman Shabana Khandelwal burned an effigy of Rita Bahuguna with her supporters and claimed that Rita had proved her low mentality and her opportunistic attitude. She said that the Congress offered its ticket to Rita twice for the general elections, made her chairperson of the National Commission for Women, made her MLA of Lucknow and now the Rita Bahuguna who used to praise Rahul Gandhi, is abusing him openly.

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