Kirti Azad
Congress' Kirti Azad to join Mamata Banerjee's TMC today
New Delhi/IBNS: Congress leader Kirti Azad is set to join the Trinamool Congress (TMC), which is in an expansion mode after the 2021 West Bengal Assembly Election victory, media reports said.
Azad, a cricketer-turned politician, is likely to join the TMC at 5 pm.
In 2015, he was suspended from the BJP for speaking against late Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley over alleged corruption and irregularities in Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA).
Azad, a three-term Lok Sabha MP from Bihar's Darbhanga constituency, had later joined the Congress in Feb 2019.
His induction to the TMC is set to take place at a time party supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is in Delhi.
In the last few months, several Congress leaders like Sushmita Dev, Luizinho Faleiro have crossed over to the TMC.\
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