Haryana polls: Neta who left BJP for Congress was in AAP, TMC earlier | India Information

CHANDIGARH: Dalit politician Ashok Tanwar’s return to Congress on Thursday is being seen by political analysts as unlikely to learn the social gathering. Nevertheless, the timing of his swap, on the identical day BJP ran ads accusing Congress of being anti-Dalit, has change into a speaking level.
Simply hours earlier than his re-entry into Congress, Tanwar had campaigned for BJP’s Ram Kumar Gautam in Jind district.He had been actively stumping for the social gathering throughout a number of constituencies. On Wednesday, Tanwar was in Hisar’s Nalwa seat, the place he campaigned for BJP’s Randhir Panihar and criticised Congress for “spreading misinformation about Modi govt with overseas funding”. Whereas campaigning for BJP, he mentioned: “Congress has at all times used Dalits for vote banks… It’s time that folks train Congress a lesson.”
Tanwar deleted all his social media posts criticising the Congress social gathering after switching sides.
His political profession has seen him transfer via a number of events over the previous few years. He joined BJP on Jan 20, following his departure from AAP, and was fielded from Sirsa (reserved) seat in Lok Sabha elections, changing sitting BJP MP Sunita Duggal. Nevertheless, he misplaced to Congress’s Kumari Selja. Tanwar had joined AAP in April 2022. AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal had appointed him chairman of the social gathering’s election marketing campaign committee. Nevertheless, he stop in Jan 2023, citing his discomfort with AAP’s rising alignment with Congress.
His transient stint in AAP adopted an earlier leap to Trinamool Congress in Nov 2021. Earlier than that, Tanwar had launched his personal political outfit, Apna Bharat Morcha, in Feb 2021, after resigning from Congress in 2019. He had been a member of Congress for many years, beginning as president of NSUI and later main Youth Congress. He grew to become Sirsa MP in 2009 and served as Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee president from 2014 to 2019 however left the social gathering as a consequence of ‘disputes’ with Hooda.