A couple of weeks ago, some Congress and BJP and AAP workers had joined the BJD here. Now on Sunday, as many as 40 BJD and AAP workers joined the Congress.Under the leadership of Bikash Suna of BJD and Sebak Sandha of AAP, the activists of both parties from Sectors-6, 17 and 18 and the Barkani area joined the Congress at the Congress Bhawan. They were greeted by Rourkela District Congress Committee (RDCC) president George Tirkey. Welcoming the new members, former RDCC president Biren Senapati said, “We together under the leadership of Tirkey will have to give a befitting reply to the BJD for its deceitful attitude towards the Rourkelites for last two decades. Among others, Youth Congress State secretary Rohit Joseph Tirkey, Rourkela District Mahila Congress president Latika Nayak, Rourkela District Youth Congress president Gyanendra Das, RDCC spokesman Kailash Sahoo and many frontline Congress leaders were resent.