Madhu Koda's wife Geeta, the lone Congress MP from the state, joined the BJP in the presence of its state unit chief Babulal Marandi earlier today
Geeta Koda represents the Singhbhum Lok Sabha seat in Jharkhand, which she won on a Congress ticket in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections
The poll panel had disqualified Koda from contesting elections for three years
Koda was disqualified by the poll panel in 2017 for not submitting poll expenses incurred by him in contesting assembly election in an appropriate format
Piyush Goyal said the court order again puts the UPA in the dock
The first five years of Koda's life as a BJP legislator were uneventful: he used this time to consolidate relationships. But elections came around in 2005 and the BJP turned down Koda's claim of a nom
The court will hear argument on quantum of punishment on Thursday.