'Ghar wapsi': Uttarakhand Minister Yashpal Arya leaves BJP, returns to Congress along with his MLA son
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"It is an important day for me as I have returned to my family. It is my 'ghar wapsi'. There can't be a happier day for me. I feel relieved after my return," Arya said soon after joining the Congress.
New Delhi: In a jolt to the BJP ahead of the next year's Uttarakhand assembly polls, state transport minister Yashpal Arya quit the saffron party on Monday and returned to the Congress along with his MLA son Sanjeev. Yashpal Arya was the president of Uttarakhand Congress from 2007 to 2014. He had switched over to the BJP in 2017 ahead of the last assembly elections in Uttarakhand.
Arya and his son along with their supporters, joined the Congress in the presence of senior party leaders Harish Rawat, KC Venugopal and Randeep Surjewala at the party headquarters in the national capital.
Earlier on Monday, they had met former Congress president Rahul Gandhi at his residence.
