#BJP, #BSP and #AAP leaders join the #Congress party.

On Jan 9, 2015

Shri Naresh Chand Ratore, who had secured around 8000 votes

during the last Delhi Assembly elections from Ghonda as a BSP candidate, Shri Raviraj

Yadav, who had contested as a BSP candidate from the Trinagar Assembly constituency,

Shri Shamshuddin Saifi, BSP co-ordinator and Shri Om Prakash Chautala, ex-BSP

block president, Shri Mahendra Singh Matiala, former national secretary of the BJP (SC

Morcha) who later became the co-ordinator of Aam Aadmi Party’s Balmiki Samaj, Shri

Prem Sharma, BSP candidate for the Hari Nagar constituency in the 2008 Assembly

elections,Shri Sandeep Mehrolia, AAP Yuva Morcha Madipur District president and Shri

Vijay Bhardwaj, alongwith AAP supporters, resigned from their respective parties and

joined the Congress today, at a function held at the DPCC office, Rajiv Bhawan, here in the

presence of Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Shri Arvinder Singh and ex-CLP

leader Shri HaroonYusuf.

All the leaders, praising the Congress party and endorsing the party’s programmes and

policies under the dynamic stewardship of Congress president Smt. Sonia Gandhi and vice-
president Shri Rahul Gandhi, said Congress was the only party in Delhi which worked for

the welfare of the people of Delhi. They said the 15-year rule of the Congress party was one

of development and progress, and for the continuation of the development works in Delhi, it

was necessary for the Congress party to come back to power in Delhi. They said they would

work for the victory of the Congress party in the coming Delhi Assembly elections to ensure

that the development works in the Capital continued with renewed vigor.

Shri Arvinder Singh and Shri Haroon Yusuf, welcoming all these leaders to the Congress

family, said with their joining the Congress party, Congress will be strengthened in Delhi,

and with their help and support, the Congress party would strive its best to work for the

welfare of the people of Delhi, and remove their difficulties and problems.