Darbhanga MP Kirti Azad, who was suspended by the ruling BJP for anti-party activities, joined the Congress on Monday in the presence of party chief Rahul Gandhi. Terming it his “ghar wapsi” (homecoming), Azad slammed BJP for its alleged lack of internal democracy and for peddling in rhetoric.
Addressing a press conference after finally being inducted in the party once represented by his father and veteran leader late Bhagwat Jha Azad, Kirti said he served the BJP selflessly for 26 years, but under the Modi Government he realised that the “real face behind the mask had started to become evident”.
“I felt bad when I heard jumlas, I saw corruption...I felt that the place where my father started his political career and served, I should also do ghar wapsi and serve there. I have made a ghar wapsi,” he said. Bhagwat Jha Azad also served as Bihar Chief Minister for a brief period.
“Today in front of Rahul Gandhi I joined the Congress, I felicitated him in traditional Mithila style,” Azad tweeted, along with photographs of him with the Congress president. AICC general secretary Bihar-incharge Shakti Sinh Gohil welcomed Azad into the party and said that it was not possible for any person with self-respect to stay in the BJP under Modi and party chief Amit Shah.