“Those who had to join the BJP, they did so last year in November-December. BJP has a strong force of 76-lakh committed workers and the party will work hard to win on all its traditional seats,” he said Friday. BJP works with a long-term vision and there is no place for habitual party hoppers who move around at the time of election only in search of seats,” he added. Over 20 tickets of the BJP had then gone to leaders defecting from other parties. Later, the below par performance was attributed to dissension within the party due to large scale crossovers from other parties.

Source: Hindustan Times August 22, 2020 03:58 UTC