Actor turned politician Shatrughan Sinha, who has been related with BJP for around three decades, will join Congress at New Delhi on March 28, a senior gathering pioneer said in Bihar capital Patna on Tuesday.
“Shatrughan Sinha will join Congress in New Delhi on March 28 at 11.30 am … He will be our candidate from Patna Sahib”, executive for the state Congress race battle board Akhilesh Prasad Singh told journalists.
Mr Sinha is a two-term BJP Lok Sabha part from Patna Sahib Singh yet hosts been dropped by the gathering which has handled association serve Ravi Shankar Prasad from the seat. Mr Sinha has been transparently reproachful of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah.
Hypothesis had been overflowing for quite a while that he would join the Congress, which is a partner of the ”Mahagathbandhan” which likewise comprises of the RJD and other nearby gatherings.
Asked whether Mr Sinha would be enlisted in the gathering within the sight of AICC president Rahul Gandhi, as was being guessed in the media, Mr Singh said “top leaders will be present on the occasion”.
Sources in the ”Mahagathbandhan” had as of late guaranteed that there was a pull of war between the Congress and RJD over Mr Sinha’s candidature as Lalu Yadav’s gathering, with which Mr Sinha shares welcoming relations, was said to be excited about handling him all alone image.
Congress has been challenging from Patna Sahib at whatever point it has battled the Lok Sabha surveys in collusion with the RJD and Mr Singh’s announcement demonstrate that decks have been cleared for Mr Sinha’s candidature by the Congress administration.
Mr Singh, be that as it may, evaded questions about Kirti Azad, another BJP official who had as of late joined the Congress, saying he will challenge decisions. On being asked from where, it will be chosen by the gathering, Mr Singh said.
Mr Azad is serving his second continuous term in the Lok Sabha from Darbhanga and the Congress needs to handle him from the seat as the body electorate has a vast populace of Maithil Brahmins its conventional supporters. RJD has been demanding that it has won the Darbhanga situate commonly and might want to challenge it again with its senior head Abdul Bari Siddiqui as its competitor.
