An estranged Aam Aadmi Party leader and several Bahujan Samaj Party leaders joined the Congress on Thursday even as the city gears up for the Assembly polls. AAP leader Mahendra Singh, who had withdrawn as the party’s North-West Delhi candidate ahead of the Lok Sabha elections last year, and AAP’s Sandeep Mehrolia and Vijay Bhardwaj switched over to Congress.
BSP leaders such as Naresh Chand Rathore, Raviraj Yadav, Shamsuddin Saifi, Om Prakash Chautala and Prem Sharma also joined the Congress in the presence of Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Singh.
“The leaders who have joined Congress were carried away by the tall promises made by the other parties. They realised in the past one year that nothing concrete has been done,” said Mr. Singh.
He also took a dig at BJP for ‘spending crores’ on radio advertisements and said that Congress’s manifesto for Delhi polls “would not talk about empty promises”.
