The Congress lost one if its most prominent leaders to the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday, when former Union minister and the man who was named on Monday as a star campaigner for the party in Uttar Pradesh, R.P.N. Singh walked over to the BJP. Singh, who had been in Congress for 32 years, and was among the most prominent faces of the party from Uttar Pradesh, said that the Congress was not the same it used to be.
“ I spent 32 years in one political party (Congress). But that party has not remained the same as it was before. Today, everyone knows that if there is one party that is working for the benefit of the people and is working on building the nation, it is the BJP,” he said.
Addressing a media conference at the BJP headquarters, Singh said: “Now I will work as a ‘Karyakarta’ towards fulfilling PM Modi’s dreams for India.”
Responding to the speculation of his wife Sonia Singh and he contesting the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, he said, “I am the only one in politics. I will do what the party asks me to.”
He said that the BJP would decide on his role in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls. “I have joined Bharatiya Janata Party as a party worker for nation-building under the influence of the Prime Minister. I want to make it clear that I will fulfil any role as a member of the party for the purpose