NEW DELHI: In a severe blow for the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Tamil Nadu, a group of party leaders and workers, led by legislator K. Selvaperunthagai, Friday decided to join the Congress.
They met party general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad "and expressed their desire to join the Indian National Congress. The Congress party welcomes their decision," general secretary Janardan Dwivedi said in a statement here.
"Selvaperunthagai and his supporters will formally join at the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) office, Satyamurthi Bhavan, Chennai," the statement said.
Selvaperunthagai, who won the election as a Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) candidate in the 2006 assembly elections, joined the BSP in 2008 in the presence of party’s senior functionary and Rajya Sabha MP Ambed Rajan, who was deputed by BSP supremo Mayawati.
Rajan announced Selvaperunthagai as the president of the party’s Tamil Nadu unit.