Khaniya Kumar Of JNU Joins INC In Presence Of Rahul Gandhi Today

The Former Jawaharlal Nehru University Student’s Union (JNUSU) president Mr. Kanhaiya Kumar and Gujarati Dalit leader Mr. Jignesh Mevani joined the Indian National Congress (INC,) on the 28th of September, Tuesday.

They were inducted at a function at the all party India Congress Committee headquarters in New Delhi in the presence of Mr. Rahul Gandhi, the Wayanad Member of Parliament (MP) and the former INC President. Speculations were rife from the last few weeks that they were set to join the grand old party. Today, they officially joined the INC in Delhi.

The former CPI leader and Gujarat member of legislative assembly (MLA) Mr. Jignesh mewani attended a Congress press conference after joining the party.

Mr. Kumar was earlier with the CPI which he joined ahead of the 2019 general election. Subsequently, he contested from his hometown Begusarai in Bihar where he lost to Bharatiya Janata Party’s Giriraj Singh.

Posters welcoming Mr. Mewani to the party were reportedly put up outside the Congress office before the big announcement. He is also said to have met Rahul Gandhi twice recently in the last two weeks.

A former JNU student leader, Kumar shot to fame in 2016, when he was arrested along with Umar Khalid over alleged “anti-national slogans” raised at an event to mark death anniversary of the parliament attack accused Afzal Guru.