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Ahmedabad: Gujarat’s independent MLA and influential Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani on Saturday announced that he will join the Congress along with former JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar on September 28.
The development comes ahead of next year’s assembly elections in BJP-ruled Gujarat. Mevani had won the 2017 election from Vadgam assembly constituency in Banaskantha district with Congress support. “On September 28, I will join the Indian National Congress along with Kanhaiya Kumar,” he said, adding that he would be able to talk in detail about the decision only after that.
Mevani said Gujarat Congress working president Hardik Patel would also attend the function to be held in Delhi where he would be inducted into the party in the presence of Rahul Gandhi.
Hardik Patel said in a statement, “We welcome all those revolutionary youth who are willing to work for the development of the country and follow the ideals of Congress Party and (Mahatma) Gandhi, Sardar (Patel) and (Jawaharlal) Nehru. strengthen.”
He described Mevani as an “old friend” and said his entry would help the party at the state and national level.
Gujarat Congress chief spokesperson Manish Doshi said Mevani became an MLA in the 2017 elections with the support of Congress workers and his entry would “strengthen the party’s fight against the corrupt policies of the BJP”. “The Congress party welcomes all those who fight against the corrupt policies of the BJP. The policy of the party is to ensure justice for all in Gujarat and fight against every such policy of BJP which is anti-people, anti-youth, anti-farmer, anti-poor.
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