Ex-Chief Minister Giridhar Gamang and his family members on Wednesday returned to the Congress ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha and Assembly elections.
Giridhar Gamang along with his wife Hema Gamang and son Shishir Gamang joined the Congress in the presence of the party's Odisha in-charge, Ajoy Kumar in New Delhi.
Former MP Sanjay Bhoi also joined the Congress.
Giridhar Gamang is a prominent tribal leader and was elected to the Lok Sabha nine times on Congress ticket. He had left the Congress and joined the BJP along with his son in 2015. Subsequently, the father-son duo quit the BJP and joined the K Chandrasekhar Rao-led Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS). However, the BRS which had promised big about its Odisha mission remained a nonstarter in the State.