New Delhi: Ahead of the of the much anticipated 2019 Lok Sabha polls, actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha cleared the air over him joining the Congress as he met party president Rahul Gandhi at his residence in New Delhi on Thursday.
After the meeting, Sinha announced he will join the Congress.
“Joining will happen soon, we will give you positive news during Navaratri. I will join Congress now,” news agency ANI quoted Sinha as saying.
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Senior Congress leader Shaktisinh Gohil tweeted that Sinha will join the party on April 6. “BJP MP Shatrugna Sinha ji met our Congress President Shri @RahulGandhi today and in national interest has decided to join Congress. He will formally join Congress on April 6,” Gohil wrote on Twitter.
सांसद, नेता/अभिनेता शत्रुघ्न सिन्हा जी आज कांग्रेस अध्यक्ष राहुल गांधी जी से मिले।वह सच बोलते रहे हैं, खामोश नहीं रहे हैं। उन्होंने राष्ट्रहित में लिये कांग्रेस पार्टी के साथ कंधे से कंधा मिलाकर काम करने का निश्चय किया है। 6 अप्रैल को आधिकारिक तौर पर कांग्रेस में शामिल होंगे। pic.twitter.com/ramBCTg7Nv
— Shaktisinh Gohil (@shaktisinhgohil) March 28, 2019
Shatrughan Sinha is a two-time sitting BJP Member of Parliament from Patna Lok Sabha seat and has been critical of the Narendra Modi government for a past couple of years. Bu this time he was sidelined in the BJP, as he was replaced by Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad as the Lok Sabha candidate from Patna Sahib constituency.
The BJP is contesting the Lok Sabha election in alliance with the Janata Dal-United and the Lok Janshakti Party in Bihar. While the Congress is in alliance with the Rashtriya Janata Dal in the state that sends 40 members to the Lok Sabha.