In another jolt to Congress in Gujarat, Rohan Gupta, who withdrew his candidature from the Ahmedabad East seat with Congress, has now joined BJP.

Notably, Gupta had resigned from his post as spokesperson and the membership of Congress on Mar 22.

Just a few days before his resignation, Rohan Gupta had withdrawn his candidacy from the Ahmedabad East Lok Sabha seat. Rohan Gupta’s father, Rajkumar Gupta, was once an MLA in Gujarat and had unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha elections in 2004.

In his resignation letter to Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, Gupta said that he had served the party with honesty and sincerity with the support of the national leadership and it was the most “difficult decision of his life” to withdraw his candidature and put his personal ambitions aside.

Without naming anyone, Rohan Gupta stated that even as he was going through a personal crisis due to his father’s illness, the same leader had continued his smear campaign against him “for the last three days with the support of his close aides in Gujarat and at the national level.”

He wrote that he was going through a lot of “mental agony” and “stress” due to the leader’s behaviour and this had compelled him to resign.

(With inputs from IANS)

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