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Gurugram: Brijendra Singh, the Lok Sabha MP from Hisar in Haryana, has bid adieu to the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and joined the Congress..
Whats even more worrisome for the BJP is that Brijendras father Birender Singh is set to take the same path, the former Union minister told ThePrint over the phone after his son was inducted into the Congress Sunday...
Brijendra Singh said he had been feeling uncomfortable within the BJP these past few months owing of differences of opinion with the party on certain issues..
Following his election from Hisar, his father Birender Singh who was a Union minister during Modis first term from 2014 to 2019 resigned from the Rajya Sabha in January 2020..
A veteran Congressman and the maternal grandson of peasant leader Sir Chhotu Ram, Birender Singh had switched loyalty to the BJP in August 2014 after the parliamentary polls..
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