Four-time Congress MLA and former Rajasthan minister Mahendrajeet Malviya joins BJP

Jaipur, 19/2: Four-time Congress MLA and former Rajasthan minister Mahendrajeet Singh Malviya on Monday joined the BJP, in a setback to the grand old party in the state.

Malviya was welcomed to the BJP by the party’s Rajasthan in-charge Arun Singh, state unit chief C P Joshi and other leaders. He said there is a double-engine government in Rajasthan, referring to the BJP dispensations in the state and at the Centre.