BJP organisation will take decision on Thakur: MP CM

Chhindwara, MP, Oct 19 (UNI) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today said that the Bharatiya Janata Party organisation would take a decision regarding issuing an assembly poll ticket to erstwhile Congress leader and former minister Premnarayan Thakur who recently entered BJP ranks.

''Central leaders are to meet on October 23 and 24 when the decision is likely to be taken as the gathering will discuss candidates for the hustings,'' he told mediapersons in this district's Amarwada.

At a public meeting addressed by Mr Chouhan earlier, more than 500 of Mr Thakur's supporters joined the BJP.

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