New Delhi: Swinging like a pendulum between the Congress and Lalu Prasad’s Rashtriya Janata Dal, rebel BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha, who was denied the party ticket, on Thursday met Congress President Rahul Gandhi and is set to formally join the Congress on April 6.
“BJP MP Shatrughan Sinhaji … will formally join Congress on April 6,” Congress spokesperson Shaktisinh Gohil said in a tweet.
Sinha is likely to be fielded again from his Patna Sahib constituency. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has fielded Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad from the seat.
Having being denied a ministerial post in Modi government, defiant Sinha started hobnobbing with opposition parties.
To seek re-election from Patna Saheb, he met Rahul Gandhi to get Congress ticket as in Bihar’s coalition arrangement, the seat went to the Congress.
However, it would be an onerous task for Sinha to turn the tables on the BJP candidate as Patna had been traditionally a saffron bastion.