JD(U) MLA Kishore resigns from Assembly to join Cong

Vijay Deo Jha Ranchi Saturday, July 11, 2009

JD(U) MLA Radha Krishna Kishore resigned from the State Assembly on Friday. “I will join my old party, the Congress, as per my announcement,” Kishore said. Krishna, who is the brother-in-law of DGP VD Ram, submitted his resignation to the office of Assembly Speaker Alamgir Alam.

“After I announced my intention to join the Congress I thought not delay in tendering my resignation from the Assembly. I opted to resign and the moment my resignation is accepted I will resign from the party also,” Kishore told this correspondent.”

From the last one month Kishore was quite vocal about his intention to join the Congress. “I had left the Congress after I was persuaded by the former JD (U) MLA and now MP Chatra Indersingh Namdhari. Namdhari also left JD (U) and I realised that I should return to my old house,” Kishore explained.

Kishore earlier had announced his intention to quit the party after he met the State in-charge of party of the Congress K Keshav Rao a fortnight back. Two days back Kishore during his visit to New Delhi held another round of meeting with the Union minister Subodh Kant Sahay, Rao and State Congress president Pradeep Kumar Balmuchu, who agreed to his come back in the party. During the by-election of two Rajya Sabha, Kishore has cast his vote to the Congress candidate Dhiraj Kumar Sahu.

“Right now I cannot tell you about the date when I will join the Congress; but it is a fait-accompli,” Kishore said. It should be learnt that from the past one year the State Congress had been trying for his come back. Kishore was top on the priority list of the Congress. The Congress even offered to field him as party candidate from Palamu.

Kishore rather opted to remain with the JD(U) to contest the election. He faced a humbling defeat in Palamu and openly blamed the BJP for insuring his defeat.

Interestingly Kishore squarely blamed the BJP for the change of his mind. “No doubt the JD(U) is a secular party and I have no grudge against the JD(U). But in the manner the BJP ditched the JD(U) in the general elections in Palamu and Chatra I find no future of the party,” said Kishore, for whom the Congress is a party of big political canvass.