Updated On: 07 May, 2024 05:16 PM IST | Asif Ali Sayed
Actor Shekhar Suman and former Congress leader Radhika Khera joined the BJP in Delhi on Tuesday amid the ongoing Lok Sabha elections 2024. Pics/PTI and X

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Khera, the former national coordinator of the Congress`s media department, resigned from the party`s primary membership on Sunday, days after her altercation with another leader at the party`s Chhattisgarh office
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In her resignation letter to Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, Khera also said she was facing opposition in the party for her visit to the Ram temple in Ayodhya

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Both Khera and Suman joined the saffron at its headquarters here in the presence of senior leaders, including BJP national general secretary Vinod Tawde and national media department in-charge Anil Baluni
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The actor thanked BJP leadership including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and Vinod Tawde, Anil Baluni, JP Nadda, and Anurag Thakur for inducting him into the party

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"Till yesterday I did not know that I would be sitting here today because many things in life happen knowingly or unknowingly. I have come here with a very positive thinking and I would like to thank God that he ordered me to come here," Shekhar Suman said while addressing a Press conference in Delhi, the ANI reported
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Radhika Khera said, "The manner in which I was misbehaved with, in the land of Kaushalya Mata for being a devotee of Ram, for having darshan of Ram Lalla, I would not have been able to reach here if I had not got the protection of the BJP government, the Modi government
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