Changing 4 Parties in 5 Yrs, Former MP Quits BJP to Join Congress in Haryana

Chandigarh: Former Lok Sabha MP Ashok Tanwar, left the BJP to join the Congress at party leader Rahul Gandhi’s rally at Haryana’s Mahendragarh on Thursday.

He had joined the BJP in January and unsuccessfully contested the general election on ‘lotus’ symbol.

Tanwar is former Congress MP from Sirsa. He was the Haryana Congress president from 2014 to 2019.

He left Congress in 2021 and joined the Trinamool Congress. In 2022 he jumped over to the AAP.

He quit AAP ahead of the Lok Sabha polls to join the BJP and contested the general election from Sirsa. He lost to Congress’s Kumari Selja.

Interestingly, Tanwar was posting in support of BJP candidates contesting the Haryana Assembly election on Thursday morning, said a NDTV report. An hour later, he was seen at the Congress rally with Rahul Gandhi to show up his “ghar wapasi (homecoming)”. The tweets have now been deleted.