Kamaal Farooqui, a senior politician from the Marathwada region of Maharashtra, rejoined Indian National Congress, after 20 years of hiatus. The comeback of Kamaal Farooqui is seen as a huge boost for the Congress party in the upcoming Maharashtra assembly elections.
After leaving Congress in 2004, Farooqui contested elections on a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) ticket but later joined Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
His son Umar Kamaal Farooqui also joined the Congress. A former youth leader of NCP, Umar had functioned as vice-president of the NCP’s student wing while being the party’s state spokesperson.
After joining Congress, Kamaal Farooqui spoke about the importance of defeating the communal, hateful right-wing ideology of BJP and its likeminded parties, and said that “the only party that can truly lead and reinstate the true spirit of our country is Congress.”
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With the leader’s homecoming, the Congress party hopes to regain the minority votes it had steadily lost to Assaduddin Owaisi’s All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra.
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