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Ever-changing colours of Ajit Jogi: Will the turncoat join BJP this time?

If either the Congress or the BJP gets a clear majority, the Jogi factor will be over in Chhattisgarh politics

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Ajit Jogi

Rasheed Kidwai | The Wire
Ajit Pramod Kumar Jogi has had the privilege of rubbing shoulders with several powerful and wise men, but the bureaucrat-turned-politician is not known to have learnt much from them. Having spent countless hours – often as audience or just a hanger-on – Ajit Jogi is expected to reflect at least a bit of the somewhat legendary patience and dexterity of Pranab Mukherjee, Arjun Singh, P.V. Narasimha Rao, P. Shiv Shankar and Ahmad Patel.

He, in fact, reflects quite the opposite.

Collector crosses over to Congress

A sharp man who comes from a modest background, Jogi has always been going at breakneck speed to