Congress leaders Ram Gopal Bairwa and Ashok Tanwar joined the BJP here on Saturday, ahead of the November 25 Rajasthan assembly polls. While Bairwa is an ex-minister, Tanwar is a former MLA, who represented Chaksu in the state assembly.

The Congress leaders were inducted in the presence of the BJP’s Rajasthan president CP Joshi and Lok Sabha MP Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore at the party office in Jaipur. Welcoming the new members into the saffron fold, Joshi said, “We have taken a major step today towards making Jhotwara ‘Congress-mukt’. I would like to express my gratitude to the new members and their trust in  PM”.