New Delhi, Feb 04: All India Mahila Congress general secretary Usha Krishnakumar will join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today. Usha, wife of former Union minister S Krishnakumar, said that she would join the BJP in the presence of party president Venkaiah Naidu at the party office in the afternoon.
She joins the BJP in the wake of her husband switching over his loyalty to the BJP from the Congress. Krishnakumar joined the BJP at a function here in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani in October last.
Usha joins the BJP amid reports that Krishnakumar will contest the coming Lok Sabha elections on a BJP ticket from Mavelikkara constituency in Kerala.
Usha said she would send in her resignation to AICC president Sonia Gandhi today.
Bureau Report