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He said that the Mahato couple will be present on the dais during Rahul Gandhi’s forthcoming rally here on March 2.Shailendra Mahato won the Jamshedpur Lok Sabha seat twice on a JMM ticket. Therefore, we decided to quit BJP and join Congress,” said Shailendra Mahato.Incidentally, in 2009, the couple had left the saffron party, only to return in 2013. Abha Mahato won from the same constituency in 1998 and 1999 on a BJP ticket. Once the face of the Kurmi community in the state, Shailendra Mahato defeated his nearest rival, Chandan Bagchi, then a top Congress leader, in the 1989 and 1991 general elections. JAMSHEDPUR: With Lok Sabha elections inching closer, the migration of politicians from one party to another has started again..