Posters welcoming Kanhaiya Kumar to the get together have been put up exterior the Congress workplace
New Delhi:
Pupil chief Kanhaiya Kumar and Gujarat Dalit chief Jignesh Mevani are set to hitch the Congress at the moment.
Posters welcoming Kanhaiya Kumar to the get together have been put up exterior the Congress workplace in Delhi this morning, hours forward of the broadly reported change.
Kanhaiya Kumar joined the CPI or Communist Occasion of India simply earlier than the 2019 normal election and contested from his hometown Begusarai in Bihar towards Giriraj Singh of the BJP. However he did not win the election.
A former president of the JNU college students’ union, Kanhaiya Kumar was jailed over “anti-national slogans” raised at an occasion in 2016 to mark the demise anniversary of Parliament assault mastermind Afzal Guru.
Jignesh Mevani, a legislator who represents the Vadgam constituency in Gujarat, is vital to the Congress’s ballot arithmetic forward of elections within the state subsequent yr.
Mr Mevani, a lawyer and former journalist, joins the Congress at a time the get together is reaching out to the scheduled castes neighborhood, its conventional assist base; the get together selected a Dalit Chief Minister in Punjab – Charanjit Singh Channi – to switch Amarinder Singh.
Mr Mevai additionally tweeted his assist: “The choice of appointing Charanjit singh ji because the CM of Punjab is a message that Rahul Gandhi and Congress have given. It’ll have great impression amongst not simply dalits however all of the subaltern plenty. For Dalits, the transfer is not only sensible however soothing too.”
Kanhaiya Kumar, say sources, has already met with Rahul Gandhi twice in two weeks. He has additionally met Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
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