Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Jan 21: Harak Singh Rawat, an expelled BJP leader and former state cabinet minister, joined the Congress party on Friday ahead of the Uttarakhand assembly elections.
Rawat was kicked out of the state cabinet and barred from the BJP’s primary membership for six years.
“When Congress wins with full majority on March 10, that will be my apology. The BJP thought of me as a use and throw; I was very upset. I didn’t break my friendship with Home Minister Amit Shah till the last moment, as I had promised,” said Harak Rawat.
On Wednesday, Rawat met with senior Congress leaders in New Delhi. According to the reports, he promised Congress leadership that he would use his clout to get at least ten seats for the party.
On Thursday, however, a group of Congress party leaders and workers expressed their opposition to his probable re-induction.
Notably, Rawat had rebelled against the Congress government in 2016 and had joined the BJP. He was recently dismissed from the BJP for reportedly pressuring the party’s leadership to offer tickets to his relatives in the next Assembly elections, a claim disputed by the leader.
Uttarakhand’s elections will be held in a single phase on February 14 and the counting of votes will be done on March 10.
