Shekhar Suman joins BJP ahead of Lok Sabha elections 2024

Actor-comedian Shekhar Suman has begun a new innings in his political career. On Tuesday, Shekhar joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of leader Vinod Tawde. He was earlier a member of Congress party and had fought the Lok Sabha election in 2009 from Bihar's Patna Sahib on a Congress ticket and lost to BJP's Shatrughan Sinha. He ended up with the third spot in the elections. After joining BJP on May 7, he said, ''Till yesterday I did not know that I would be sitting here today because many things in life happen knowingly or unknowingly. I have come here with a very positive thinking and I



would like to thank God that he ordered me to come here.''

Along with Shekhar Suman, Radhika Khera, who was an All India Congress Committee (AICC) spokesperson, also joined the BJP at the party headquarters in New Delhi. After joining BJP, Khera said, "The manner in which I was misbehaved with on the land of Kaushalya Mata for being a devotee of Ram, for having darshan of Ram Lalla, I would not have been able to reach here if I had not got the protection of the BJP government, the Modi government. Today's Congress is not Mahatma Gandhi's Congress, it is anti-Ram, anti-Hindu Congress.''