Lt Colonel Samir Dwivedi, son of Congressman Janardhan Dwivedi, joins the Bhartiya Janta Party

While hardly four days are left for the polling of Delhi election scheduled for 8th February, the election campaigning has geared up to the maximum by all the major parties viz BJP, AAP and Congress leaders addressing maximum public meetings accusing each other crossing all limits in order to ensure their respective parties’ victories at the hustings.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, Home minister Amit Shah from BJP, Arvind Kejriwal from AAP and Sonia, Rahul and Priyanka Vadra from the Congress party are addressing several meetings making the Delhi election scene hot and hectic. No party is leaving out any stone unturned to downgrade each other by making unaccounted promises to the electorates post-victory and also spitting venom against each other to the greatest extent possible.

Issues like Shaheen Bagh, NRC and NPR have taken the front seat while developmental issues, if any have gone to the background. Several leaders and ex MLAs have changed sides by joining AAP during the elections viz Shoab Iqbal and Ram Singh Netaji, both from Congress. However, there seems to be a good news for BJP today as the son of the senior Congress leader and former general secretary Janardhan Dwivedi, Lt Colonel Samir Dwivedi today joined the Bhartiya Janata Party in the mid of hectic election campaigning in the presence of the party’s national general secretary Arun Singh at the party headquarter in New Delhi.

Lt Colonel Samir Dwivedi served in strife-torn Kashmir for a long stint before retiring from the Indian Army. Addressing a press conference after joining the party in the presence of BJP general secretary Arun Singh, Samir Dwivedi expressed his complete faith in the principles and programs of the saffron party and said that it’s because of the most dashing, capable and developmental policies and actions of prime minister Narendra Modi that I have joined the BJP. He added that he is joining a political party for the first time and BJP because, he is immensely influenced, impressed and inspired by prime minister Narendra Modi. His father, a staunch Congressman and senior Congress leader termed it as his son’s personal and independent decision.

It may be recalled that professor Janardhan Dwivedi had been in close proximity of late Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, and Rahul Gandhi and had been the national general secretary of the party for more than a decade. However, for the last 6 years or more he is in political oblivion though very much in Congress.