Ashok Tanwar, a former Congress leader who had joined the Trinamool Congress in November 2021, switched over to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday. Tanwar met AAP party leader and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi.
Tanwar, a former MP from Sirsa in Haryana, had quit the Congress in 2019.
This step could be a big jolt to the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress that has been trying to gain a foothold in Haryana with the help of the former Lok Sabha member.
He was the president of the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee (HPCC) and also served as the chief of Indian Youth Congress and the party’s students’ wing NSUI.
Not only Tanwar but several other local leaders from the Congress, BJP and other parties recently joined the AAP since its landslide victory in Punjab.
