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Lucknow: Senior Congress leader Saleem Iqbal Shervani and former BSP MP Tribhuvan Dutt on Tuesday joined the Samajwadi Party in the presence of party president Akhilesh Yadav.
Addressing media persons after his induction into the SP, Shervani said, “Currently, the politics of hatred, doubt and lies is being done in the country.
In order to strengthen the Samajwadi Party, I have joined the party.”
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Lucknow: Senior Congress leader Saleem Iqbal Shervani and former BSP MP Tribhuvan Dutt on Tuesday joined the Samajwadi Party in the presence of party president Akhilesh Yadav.
Addressing media persons after his induction into the SP, Shervani said, “Currently, the politics of hatred, doubt and lies is being done in the country.
In order to strengthen the Samajwadi Party, I have joined the party.”
“I want to conclude by saying that with pride we should say that we are Muslim or Hindu.
But we should also add the word ‘Hindustani’ Muslim and ‘Hindustani’ Hindu,” he added.
Shervani, a five-time MP from Badaun and former Union minister, had quit the Congress to join the SP after the Babri Masjid demolition in 1992.
However, he returned to the Congress in 2009 after he was denied a ticket to contest the Lok Sabha polls.
Expressing confidence that Samajwadi Party would win the 2022 UP Assembly elections, Akhilesh said the party has been further strengthened with the new entrants.