Delhi Assembly Elections: Adarsh Shastri to join Congress
New Delhi/UNI: Angry over being denied a ticket in the assembly elections this time, the grandson of former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Adarsh Shastri will join Congress on Saturday.
He contested the 2015 Delhi Legislative Assembly elections from Dwarka (Delhi Assembly constituency) and got 79,729 votes, defeating sitting BJP MLA Parduymn Rajput.
The AAP did not give him a ticket this time. In his place, the party has given ticket to Vinay Kumar Mishra, son of Congress leader and former MP Mahabal Mishra, who recently joined the party.
Mishra on Friday filed his nomination papers from Dwarka as AAP candidate.
On behalf of Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC), it has been said that Mr Shastri will join the Congress today in the presence of Congress general secretary P C Chacko and State Unit president Subhash Chopra.
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