India News | Two NDA Leaders Join Congress in Bihar

Patna, May 7 (PTI) Two senior leaders of the ruling NDA in Bihar on Wednesday joined the Congress, months ahead of the assembly polls.

Anil Singh, a former BJP leader, and Shambhu Patel, who was with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JD(U), were inducted into the Congress by state unit president Rajesh Kumar.

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Rajesh Kumar said it was a homecoming for Singh, whose father Ram Raj Singh had served as a minister when the party ruled the state. Singh has himself represented the now-abolished Chandi assembly seat twice, first on a Congress ticket and later as an MLA of the Samata Party, the JD(U)'s previous avatar.

Patel, who is a former JD(U) state general secretary, said he was feeling stifled in the party headed by the CM.

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The BPCC president asserted that the induction of Singh and Patel will give a boost to the Congress ahead of the assembly elections due later this year.

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