Sunil Shastri, the son of former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, is set to join the Congress and has met the party General Secretary, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
After the meeting, Priyanka tweeted the photo with Shastri and said, “What better occasion than the Congress Foundation Day to meet Sunil Shastri ji, son of a soldier of Congress and former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, to discuss a range of issues. We will fight together and win.”
Shastri has been with the BJP but his meeting indicates his inclination to join the Congress as the latter is searching for a political face in the Mirzapur Assembly constituency after the exit of Lalitesh Pati Tripathi.
In Mirzapur, the Congress had been banking on Lalitesh Pati Tripathi, the son of former Chief Minister late Kamala Pati Tripathi, who joined the Trinamool Congress ahead of the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.
Shastri, though out of electoral politics for long, will bring back the legacy of Lal Bahadur Shastri. Anil Shastri, who is one of the sons of the former Prime Minister, is already in the Congress party.
