Ahead of the next year's assembly elections in Gujrat, Jignesh Mevani a Gujrat independent MLA and former JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar will join Congress on September 28.
Mevani an influential Dalit leader in Gujrat, won from the Vadgam Assembly constituency in Banaskantha district in 2017 with the backing of Congress.
The induction of Mevani in Gujrat Congress comes as an huge boost for the party ahead of the assembly elections. Congress is eyeing Dalit votes in the upcoming elections.
Mevani is an influential leader, who became a household name after he raised the issues of Dalit atrocities following Una Dalit youth torture, while another youth leader Hardik Patel led the Patidar reservation movement, and youth icon Alpesh Thakor led the OBC rights movement.
The Combo of youth power Mevani, Hardik Patel, and Alpesh Thakor in Gujrat could be a game-changer for Congress and can influence the Dalit, Patidar, and OBC vote banks in the state.
"We welcome all the revolutionary youths who are willing to work for the development of the country and strengthen the Congress party and the ideals of (Mahatma) Gandhi, Sardar (Patel), and (Jawaharlal) Nehru," Hardik Patel said in a statement.
Mevani's Induction in Congress could be estimated beforehand owning to his good relations with the party, who also backed him in the 2017 Gujrat assembly elections.
The induction of Communist Party leader Kanhaiya Kumar on the other hand will point several guns towards the Congress owning to his Anti-India image portrayed by several BJP leaders in the past.
Kumar had earlier contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from his hometown of Begusarai in Bihar but lost to the Bharatiya Janata Party's Giriraj Singh.
Congress has been eyeing the Dalit Vote bank in several states for the upcoming assembly elections in 2022. Earlier, this week, Charanjit Singh Channi became the first Dalit Sikh to lead Punjab.
