AGRA: BJP's Agra Cantonment MLA Girraj Singh Dharmesh on Thursday slammed his own party for inducting former BSP MLA Gutiyari Lal Duwesh, his long-time political bete noire. Dharmesh has fought two elections against Duwesh and had defeated him in the 2017 poll by a margin of 46,325.Now, Duwesh's entry into the party has irked the BJP MLA. Unhappy over the move, Dharmesh said that Duwesh is a 'fuka hua kartus' (spent force) and also said that the party should introspect."Since there is a wave of BJP in the country and we are once again heading toward another victory, people like Gutiyari Lal Duwesh are joining hands with our party. The party should introspect. Do we really need a former BSP leader in our party whom I defeated by a margin of over 45,000 votes? In 2012, he won against me by a margin of 6,000 fake votes, which he allegedly brought from neighbouring state Rajasthan . There must be something against him which has forced Duwesh to join our party in order to save himself. There was huge anger during his tenure as MLA among locals, as he didn't do anything for the public," the BJP MLA said.Duwesh and another BSP leader Umesh Sharma Saithiya, a 2017 candidate from Fatehabad assembly, joined BJP in presence of party's state chief Mahendra Nath Pandey in Lucknow on Tuesday.Responding to the charges of incumbent MLA Dharmesh against him, Duwesh said, "I have lodged a complaint with party high command in Lucknow. Dharmesh is going against the party line."

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