Rajasthan Congress MLA and former minister Mahendrajeet Singh Malviya has joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) party on Monday. He said there is a double-engine government in Rajasthan, referring to the BJP dispensations in the state and at the Centre. Malviya was welcomed to the BJP by the party's Rajasthan in-charge Arun Singh, state unit chief CP Joshi and other leaders.
Development is a big issue. There is a double-engine government here. The state and the country are transforming and the entire world is watching, he told reporters before a joint press conference at the party office.
In the assembly elections held late last year, the BJP secured a landslide victory in Rajasthan. The party clinched 115 seats, surpassing the Congress, which governed the state from 2018 to 2023, with the latter winning 70 seats.