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Sanjay Nirupam admitted to Congress

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HEARTY WELCOME: Former Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Nirupam offering sweets to the Maharasthra unit Congress chief, Prabha Rau, after he joined the Congress in New Delhi on Monday. — Photo: PTI

NEW DELHI: Over a month after he quit the Rajya Sabha, the former Shiv Sena MP, Sanjay Nirupam, was admitted to the Congress at a brief function here on Monday.

Mr. Nirupam was welcomed by the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress chief, Prabha Rau, the Mumbai Congress president, Gurudas Kamat, and the two AICC secretaries, B.K. Hari Prasad and Bharat Solanki, at the residence of the All-India Congress Committee general secretary, Margaret Alva.

Mr. Nirupam said he had bid farewell to the Sena ideology. ``I do not subscribe to the Hindutva that seeks to divide people,'' he said, adding that he might be observing rituals as per tradition, but believed in the basic Hindu value of secularism.

Ms. Rau said there was no truth in the report that Mr. Nirupam's entry was opposed by a section of the minorities.

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