Indu Verma, spouse of three-time Himachal Pradesh BJP MLA Rakesh Verma joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday. Indu's supporters also joined the saffron party in the presence of BJP state chief Rajiv Bindal.
"Joining the Congress was a mistake but 'subah ka bhula agar sham ko ghar aa jaye to use bhula nahi kehtey' (It is never too late to mend)," Indu said, and added that I and my workers would work for the victory of the party without any expectations.
Indu earlier moved to Congress in 2022 before the assembly elections. Later on, she contested as an independent candidate from the Theog assembly constituency after the Congress nominated former Himachal Pradesh Congress president Kuldeep Rathore from the seat.
Contesting as an Independent, Indu Verma had secured 20 per cent of the total 65987 votes polled in the 2022 assembly elections.
Earlier, she remained a zila parishad member twice, besides being the president of the Shimla unit of the BJP Mahila Morcha. She also runs the 'Mahila Jagrukta Manch', an NGO in the state.
Her husband Rakesh Verma had won his first election in 1993 on the BJP ticket from the Theog constituency, defeating Congress leader and former minister Vidya Stokes.
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