Balendu Shukla, a former Madhya Pradesh minister and childhood friend of late Congress veteran Madhavrao Scindia, quit the BJP on Friday and rejoined the Congress. His exit from the BJP, coming just a couple of months after Jyotiraditya Scindia's entry into the BJP, would help the Congress in the Gwalior-Chambal, claim the party sources. Shukla re-joined the Congress on Friday afternoon at a small gathering at former Chief Minister Kamal Nath's residence. He had felt slighted in the Congress with the ascendance of Jyotiraditya Scindia after Madhavrao Scindia's death. (IANS)