Haryana jolts BJP, Ashok Tanwar joins Congress: He holds 9 seats; Changed 4 parties in 5 years, also formed his own party

Rahul Gandhi welcomed Ashok Tanwar to the party in Mahendragarh on Thursday.

BJP leader and former MP Ashok Tanwar joined the Congress amid the Haryana assembly elections on Thursday, October 3. Rahul Gandhi inducted him into the party in Mahendragarh rally of Congress. Meanwhile, former CM Bhupendra Hooda was also present, but he greeted him from a distance.

Tanwar left the Congress five years ago after falling out with Hooda. Later he also stayed in TMC and AAP. He joined the BJP on January 20 before the Lok Sabha elections. Thus four parties changed in 5 years. After leaving the Congress in 2019, he also formed a party named Apna Bharat Morcha.

In the current Lok Sabha elections, BJP had given ticket from Sirsa seat. Here he faced Congress candidate Kumari Selja. Selja defeated Tanwar by 2,68,497 votes.

Ashok Tanwar greeted former CM Bhupendra Singh Hooda from a distance.

Tanwar's hold on 9 assembly seats

This is being considered as a big blow for BJP amid the elections. They come from SC. Its 9 constituencies include Sirsa, Fatehabad, Elanabad, Rania, Kalanwali, Dabwali, Ratia, Tohana and Narwa. All these seats come under Sirsa Lok Sabha seat.

There are 8.13 lakh Scheduled Caste voters in this seat. Including 3.58 lakhs of Jat community, 1.90 lakhs of Jat Sikhs, 1.15 lakhs of Punjabi community (Khatri, Arora, Mehta), 90 thousand Banias, 90 thousand Kambojas, 61 thousand Brahmins, 48 ​​thousand Bishrois, backward class people. Kumbhar, Saini, Ahir, Gurjar, Khati, Soni 1.41 lakh, others (Muslim, Christian, Jain etc) 18 thousand voters.

Tanwar left Congress because of Hooda Ashok Tanwar started his political career in 1993 with Congress. At that time he was only 17 years old. He became the national president of NSUI, the student wing of the Congress party, in 2003 and the national president of the Youth Congress in 2005. He worked with Rahul Gandhi in Yuva Congress. Rahul Gandhi himself made Ashok Tanwar the President of Haryana Pradesh Congress in February 2014.

As Congress state president, Ashok Tanwar and former CM Bhupendra Singh Hooda always had the figure of thirty-six. It was because of Hooda that he had to resign as the president of Haryana Pradesh Congress. Ashok Tanwar resigned from the primary membership of the Congress Party on 5 October 2019, upset over the distribution of tickets ahead of the 2019 Haryana Assembly elections. At that time, Ashok Tanwar also accused him of selling Congress tickets for Rs 5 crore.