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New Delhi: Prominent BJP leader in Haryana and former Union minister Chaudhry Birendra Singh joined Congress on Tuesday, almost a month after his son and sitting MP from Hisar Brijendra Singh jumped ship with Congress.
Birendra Singh joined the Congress at the party headquarters in the national capital in the presence of party leaders and supporters, including Randeep Surjewala and Pawan Khera.
Premlata Singh, the wife of Chaudhry Birendra Singh also joined the party along with him. Singh, while speaking at the joining event, said that his coming back to the Congress party is the “return of the ideology”.
“We are here because we have stood stronger with the people of Haryana and they too have supported us. In the last ten years, you (BJP) did not make anybody your own. I will say that it is not only ‘ghar wapasi’ but ‘vichardhara ki wapasi’ (return of ideology),” the leader said.
Birender Singh was the Union steel minister in the first government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He also held charge as minister of rural development, Panchayati Raj, and drinking water and sanitation.
Birender Singh had also served as a minister in the Congress government led by Hooda in Haryana. Brijendra Singh, the son of Birendra Singh, who is the sitting MP from Hisar resigned from Lok Sabha and the BJP and joined the Congress last month. The Hisar MP had cited “compelling political reasons.”
