Former Congress MLA from Gujarat's Anand district Kanti Sodha Parmar quit the party and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of state unit president C R Paatil on Monday.

Parmar's exit from the grand old party has come less than two months after the BJP recorded a historic victory in Gujarat with 156 seats, while Congress managed to bag just 17 seats.

Paatil welcomed Parmar into the fold at state headquarters in Shri Kamalam in Gandhinagar.

Parmar, who was elected from Anand in 2017, lost to BJP's Yogesh Patel in the December 2022 elections.

“There is nothing left in the Congress party,” Parmar said, claiming that no central Congress leader had come to Gujarat to campaign for the party's candidates during the election.

Earlier in the day, Parmar resigned from the primary membership of the Congress in a letter to the party's state unit president Jagdish Thakor.

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