Indore/Bhopal:
Pramod Tandon, an aide of Union minister and BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia, returned to the Congress fold on Saturday ahead of the Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh.
Mr Tandon, along with Ramkishore Shukla and Dinesh Malhar, was formally reinducted into the Congress by Kamal Nath, the party’s state unit chief in Indore.
Mr Tandon had joined the Bharatiya Janata Party when Mr Scindia and several Congress MLAs close to him crossed over to the party in March 2020, toppling the Kamal Nath-led Congress government in the state.
Mr. Tandon was appointed member of the state BJP working committee, but he recently resigned.
He was said to be a die-hard loyalist of Jyotiraditya Scindia and his father, late Madhavrao Scindia, before him.
Samandar Patel, another member of the BJP working committee, had returned to the Congress along with hundreds of supporters in Bhopal on August 18.
Mr Patel told PTI that Mr Tandon is the sixth leader from the Scindia camp to rejoin the Congress. Baijnath Singh Yadav, another member of the BJP working committee, had rejoined the Congress in July.
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