Kanhaiya Kumar joins Congress, says saving party crucial for country

Kanhaiya Kumar joins Congress, says saving party crucial for country
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He said there is a sense of urgency to save the country and the youth should create an atmosphere in this regard

Former JNU students’ union president Kanhaiya Kumar joined the Congress on Tuesday in the presence of Rahul Gandhi, saying the “country cannot be saved” without “saving” the oldest party.
Kumar addressed a press conference at the Congress headquarters here along with independent Gujarat MLA and Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani who too extended his support to the Congress ideology and said he would contest the next assembly polls on the Congress symbol.
Asserting that it is detrimental to a country’s interests if the Opposition is weakened as those in power become authoritarian, Kumar, who quit the Communist Party of India (CPI), described the Congress party as a “big ship” and said the small boats will survive only when the Congress is saved.

“I have decided to join the country’s oldest and most democratic party because I feel along with the lakhs of youths that if the Congress is not saved, the country will not be saved,” he said.
Both Kumar and Mevani earlier joined Rahul Gandhi in garlanding the statue of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh near ITO to mark the martyr’s birth anniversary.
“In the kingdom of lies, revolution comes from the truth. The new and the old friends will have to participate in this Satyagraha together,” Gandhi later tweeted using hashtag ‘BhagatSingh’.
Kumar, who was flanked at the press conference by Congress leaders K C Venugopal, Randeep Surjewala, Pawan Bansal and Hardik Patel, said the country is “in danger” and “we need the courage of Bhagat Singh, equality of Ambedkar and unity of Mahatma Gandhi”.
He also took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, describing him as “Govinda of our times who changes his clothes often”.