{"id":12239,"date":"2024-03-28T14:31:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T14:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/28\/lok-sabha-election-2024-former-bjp-mp-ram-tahal-chaudhary-joins-congress-india-news-times-of-india\/"},"modified":"2024-03-28T14:31:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T14:31:47","slug":"lok-sabha-election-2024-former-bjp-mp-ram-tahal-chaudhary-joins-congress-india-news-times-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/28\/lok-sabha-election-2024-former-bjp-mp-ram-tahal-chaudhary-joins-congress-india-news-times-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Lok Sabha election 2024: Former BJP MP Ram Tahal Chaudhary joins Congress | India News &#8211; Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/msid-108851332,imgsize-1041765.cms?resize=1280,720&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Lok Sabha election 2024: Former BJP MP Ram Tahal Chaudhary joins Congress | India News &#8211; Times of India\" title=\"Lok Sabha election 2024: Former BJP MP Ram Tahal Chaudhary joins Congress | India News &#8211; Times of India\" \/><\/div>\n<div>NEW DELHI: <!-- -->Former BJP MP<!-- --> Ram Tahal Chaudhary on Thursday Joined <!-- -->Indian National Congress<!-- --> in the presence of <!-- -->Jharkhand Congress<!-- --> in-charge Ghulam Ahmad Mir.<br \/>Chaudhary was BJP MP from Ranchi Lok Sabha seat from 1991 to 2004 and then from 2014 to 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Formerly affiliated with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) till 2017, Chaudhary resigned from BJP after being denied a ticket for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.In the same year, he ran as an independent candidate in Ranchi but garnered less than 2.5% of the votes. 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