Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Imran Masood returns to Congress after SP, BSP stint, party says ‘ghar wapsi’
More than a year and a half after he left the party, former Congress national general secretary Imran Masood returned to the party fold on Saturday, with the party terming it as “ghar wapsi”.
Masood, who wields influence in and around Saharanpur in western Uttar Pradesh, moved to the Samajwadi Party (SP) in January 2022 before the state elections and then joined the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) last October. He was expelled from the Mayawati-led party in August this year for “anti-party activities and indiscipline”.
Masood said that he would apologize to Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra for letting her down. He also asserted that he had told his supporters that he would now not leave the Congress “till going to the grave”.
He added Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra was transformational for politics and following the cross-country march, the Congress won Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka, and now was going to win in four states.
Masood thanked Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, former party chief Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi and AICC general secretary K C Venugopal for the induction.
Welcoming Masood into the party, Congress Rajya Sabha member Rajeev Shukla said this was Masood’s “ghar wapsi” (homecoming) and he has now vowed to never leave the party.
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Masood’s re-entry would give the party an edge in the Saharanpur area at a time when the parties in the INDIA bloc of Opposition parties, a grouping of 28 parties to
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