Ashok Tanwar, 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 convenor and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in the national capital.
Tanwar, a former MP from Sirsa in Haryana, had quit the Congress in 2019.
Earlier in the day, there was a strong buzz about his move that could be a big jolt to the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress that had been trying to increase its footprint in Haryana with the help of the former Lok Sabha member.
He had been 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.
Several local leaders from the Congress, BJP and other parties recently joined the AAP since the party's landslide victory in Punjab.