C R Kesavan, ex-Cong leader and C Rajagopalachari’s great grandson, joins BJP
   Date :09-Apr-2023

C R Kesavan
 
C R Kesavan, great-grandson of India’s first Indian Governor-General C Rajagopalachari, being
welcomed as he joins BJP in the presence of Union Minister V K Singh and party leader Anil Baluni, at BJP HQ in New Delhi on Saturday. (PTI)
 
CHENNAI :
 
FORMER Congress leader and great grandson of India’s last Governor General C. Rajagopalachari, on Saturday joined the BJP. In the last two days, Anil Antony, son of veteran Congress leader A K Antony, and former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, also in the Congress earlier, have joined the BJP party. Kesavan had quit all the Congress posts in February this year. He was a media panelist of the Congress party in Tamil Nadu. In his resignation letter addressed to Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, he said, “I can no longer in clear conscience say that I concur with what party currently symbolises, stands for nor seeks to propagate.
 
This is exactly why I had declined an organisational responsibility at the national level and refrained from participating in the Bharat Jodo Yatra.” Thanking the BJP after his induction into the party, Kesavan said: “I want to thank you for inducting me into the world’s largest political party, the BJP, especially on a day when our Prime Minister is in Tamil Nadu. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s corruption free governance and reform led inclusive development agenda have transformed India from a fragile economy to the fifth largest in the world, he said.