{"id":505926,"date":"2024-03-20T17:55:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T12:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=505926"},"modified":"2024-03-20T18:04:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T12:34:53","slug":"bsp-danish-ali-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/bsp-danish-ali-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspended BSP leader Danish Ali joins Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Lok Sabha MP Danish Ali, who was suspended from BSP for indulging in anti-party activities, joined the Congress party in New Delhi on Wednesday. Ali is an MP from Amroha constituency in Uttar Pradesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision came after the announcement of dates for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections by the Election Commission of India on March 16. There has been speculation that Congress may field Ali from the Amroha seat in the general election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WATCH<\/a> | Amroha Lok Sabha MP Danish Ali joins the Congress Party, in Delhi. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3HY2pzUfGF\">pic.twitter.com\/3HY2pzUfGF<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1770406381348159873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A week ago, Ali met former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi at her 10 Janpath residence in the national capital and sought blessing from the epitome of sacrifice, Sonia, for his second Lok Sabha election from Amroha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Honoured to get blessings of epitome of sacrifice, Smt <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SoniaGandhi?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SoniaGandhi<\/a> for my 2nd <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LokSabhaElection?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LokSabhaElection<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Amroha?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Amroha<\/a>. Her heart beats for India\u2019s poor. It was NAC headed by her that piloted landmark pro-poor &amp; transparency laws like MNREGA, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RTI?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RTI<\/a>, Right to Education, Food Security Bill. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AAesBjF2FH\">pic.twitter.com\/AAesBjF2FH<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Kunwar Danish Ali (@KDanishAli) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KDanishAli\/status\/1768170142804947105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ali praised Sonia in a post on X and said her heart beats for India&#8217;s poor. It was the National Advisory Council (NAC) headed by her that piloted landmark pro-poor and transparency laws like MNREGA, RTI, Right to Education, and Food Security Bill, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier it was reported that the grand old party had bargained for the Amroha constituency in its seat-sharing deal talks with the Akhilesh Yadav\u2019s Samajwadi Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apart from Ali, Lal Singh, former minister of Jammu and Kashmir, also joined the Congress Party, in Delhi today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WATCH<\/a> | Lal Singh, former minister of Jammu and Kashmir, joins the Congress Party, in Delhi. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1SaVdV5jrz\">pic.twitter.com\/1SaVdV5jrz<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1770400875959214234?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Jan Adhikar Party chief Pappu Yadav merged his party with Congress. Addressing the press, he said that since his childhood, he has seen Mohan Prakash\u2019s struggle and he has received his blessings all his life. Prakash used to be a strong voice back then and now he is an ideology for Pappu Yadav.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pappu Yadav further said that his party has always related to the Congress ideology. Rahul Gandhi has struggled the most in this world, especially at a time when digital media has taken over most of the hard work, he walked for more than 4000 km in extreme temperatures, Yadav praised Gandhi. The respect which he has received and the faith put in him and his party by Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi are enough to keep him going, he added. Rahul has awakened the consciousness of 130 crore people of India, Yadav further added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WATCH<\/a> | Delhi: Jan Adhikar Party chief Pappu Yadav merges his party with Congress. <br><br>He says, &quot;&#8230; Since my childhood, I&#39;ve seen Mohan Prakash Ji struggle and I&#39;ve received his blessings all my life. He used to be a strong voice back then and now he is an ideology for me. We\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MOituy6m74\">pic.twitter.com\/MOituy6m74<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1770401184731275736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ali met former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi at her 10 Janpath residence in the national capital on March 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":505930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Suspended BSP leader Danish Ali joins Congress","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4,125714],"tags":[47,111,160812],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20172706\/former-bsp-leader-sitting-mp-from-amroha-danish-1709415.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505926"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=505926"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=505926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->