GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 5th April. Former Haryana Congress leader Ashok Tanwar joined the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party on Monday. This is a significant boost to the Aam Aadmi Party.
Tanwar was inducted into the Aam Aadmi Party by party’s national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
Senior Aam Aadmi Party leader and Deputy CM Manish Sisodia and other leaders were present at Arvind Kejriwal’s residence on the occasion.
Kejriwal said, “I wholeheartedly welcome him to our family and also the sea of the supporters that have accompanied Ashok ji to AAP.My roots go back to Haryana so I am delighted to see our Haryana unit getting strengthened like this”.
He added, “I am certain with the vision of Ashok ji we will drive change in Haryana too. I hope that in the coming days AAP will form the government in the state too”.
Ashok Tanwar, a former MP from Sirsa, Haryana, had quit the Congress party in 2019. Last year in November, Tanwar had joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC).
Considered to be once too close to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Ashok Tanwar had served as the president of Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee for five years before he was replaced by Selja Kumari in September 2019.
Tanwar started his journey in politics as a student leader and served as the president of Indian Youth Congress and the Congress’ students’ wing NSUI.
Addressing a joint press conference with Manish Sisodia and other AAP leaders later, Tanwar expressed his gratitude to Kejriwal for inducting him into his party, and said, “Arvind Kejriwal is a strong son of India and I believe that he will emerge much stronger in the coming days.”
“I am with him with all my dedication, capacity and experience,” Kejriwal said.
Welcoming Ashok Tanwar to his party, Manish Sisodia said that the former Congress leader from Haryana has joined the AAP with an objective to take forward “Kejriwal’s model of governance and his politics in Haryana”.
The Aam Aadmi Party will also be benefited by his experience in execution of its national expansion plan, Sisodia said.
AAP’s Rajya Sabha member Sushil Kumar Gupta, who is also in-charge of political affairs in Haryana said, “Haryana is number one in corruption. We all will work to change this system. We will end the divisive politics and make Haryana a prosperous state”.
Besides Tanwar, two other local leaders Sandeep Bhardwaj and Vikas Bhardwaj and a journalist from Haryana Shiv Kumar also joined the Aam Aadmi Party.
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