Haryana news: Kiran Choudhry, daughter Shruti resign from Congress to join BJP

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PTI that both she and Shruti will be joining the BJP on Wednesday.Shruti Choudhry, a former MP, was also the working president of the Haryana unit of the Congress. Their joining is likely to come as a big boost to the BJP in Haryana with few months remaining for the polls.Kiran Choudhry, a sitting MLA, is a daughter-in-law of former Haryana chief minister Bansi Lal.She is considered as bete noire of senior Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda.Both have sent separate resignation letters to Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge in which they took a veiled attack at Hooda.While Kiran Choudhry, 69, wrote that Haryana Congress is being run as a “personal fiefdom", Shruti Choudhry, in an apparent reference to Hooda, alleged that the state unit centres around one person who has compromised the interest of the party for his own “selfish" and “petty interests".“It is most unfortunate that the Congress party in Haryana is being run as the personal fiefdom leaving no space for sincere voices like mine, who have been stifled, humiliated and conspired against in a most well-orchestrated and systematic manner, thus, significantly hampering my diligent efforts to represent our people and uphold the values, I have always stood for," Kiran Choudhry said in her letter to Kharge.Kiran, learnt to be upset with the denial of ticket to Shruti Choudhry from Bhiwani-Mahendragarh constituency in the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls, also said: “They have pushed me into a corner.