Former MP Ashok Tanwar Rejoins Congress, 4th Party Switch In 5 Years
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Ashok Tanwar is a former Congress MP from Sirsa and also served as Haryana Congress chief from 2014 to 2019,
Former Lok Sabha MP Ashok Tanwar, who joined the BJP in January and unsuccessfully contested the general election on 'lotus' symbol, is back in the Congress. Mr Tanwar rejoined the Congress at party leader Rahul Gandhi's rally at Haryana's Mahendragarh today. कांग्रेस ने लगातार शोषितों, वंचितों के हक़ की आवाज़ उठाई है और संविधान की रक्षा के लिए पूरी ईमानदारी से लड़ाई लड़ी है।हमारे इस संघर्ष और समर्पण से प्रभावित होकर आज BJP के वरिष्ठ नेता, पूर्व सांसद, हरियाणा में BJP की कैंपेन कमेटी के सदस्य और स्टार प्रचारक श्री अशोक तंवर… pic.twitter.com/DynuJEleSE
A former Congress MP from Sirsa, Mr Tanwar served as Haryana Congress chief from 2014 to 2019, when he left the party. In 2021, he joined the Trinamool Congress and switched to AAP the next year. Mr Tanwar left AAP ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, opposing AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal's decision to ally with Congress.
Following his exit from AAP, he joined the BJP and contested the general election from Sira but lost to Congress's Kumari Selja.
