Summary:
Lucknow: Two days after he was denied ticket, BJP MP from Etawah, Ashok Dohre, defected to the Congress on Friday. Earlier this week, BJP MP from Hardoi, Anshul Verma, joined the Samajwadi Party after being denied ticket. Buzz over Dohre to be denied ticket started when his name was dropped in the posters put up by BJP for a party programme in Etawah recently. BJP has replaced Dohre with SC/ST commission chairman and Agra MP Ramashankar Katheria in Etawah. Still I was denied a ticket and there was no explanation from the party,” he said.Dohre is the second BJP MP to join the Congress after Bahraich MP Savitri Bai Phule, also a Dalit..