Jammu and Kashmir: More than 20 leaders from Jammu and Kashmir joined the Congress in the presence of party chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday. According to reports, many of them were from Ghulam Nabi Azad's Democratic Progressive Azad Party.
Apart from Congress president Kharge, AICC general secretary in-charge organisation K C Venugopal, AICC in-charge of state Rajani Patil and Jammu and Kashmir Congress chief Vikar Rasool Wani marked their presence on the occasion.
Yashpal Kundal, an ex-Minister, a two-time legislator from the Panthers Party and the Chief of the SC/ST and OBC Department of AAP in J-K, was among those who joined the Congress here.
Haji Abdul Rashid Dar, a former vice president of JKPCC who later joined Azad's party, also returned to the Congress fold.
Naresh K Gupta (DPAP), Sham Lal Bhagat (DPAP), Namrata Sharma (Apni Party), Saima Jan (DPAP), Shahjehan Dar (DPAP), Farooq Ahmad (AAP), Taranjit Singh Toni, Gazanfar Ali, Santosh Majotra (DPAP), Rajni Sharma (DPAP), Nirmal Singh Mehta (DPAP), Madan Lal Chalotra (APNI Party), Hamit Singh Batti (AAP), Ramesh Pandotra (AAP), Vaid Raj Sharma (AAP), Mandeep Chowdhary (AAP), Nazir Ahmed Auqab, Maheshvar Vishwakarma and Jung Bahadur Sharma (DPAP) joined the Congress.
Several leaders, who had left the Congress to join Azad's party after he quit the grand old party and formed his own outfit, have rejoined the Congress since then.
(with inputs from PTI)
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