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Sreenivasa Prasad rejoins Congress

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NEW DELHI: The former Union Minister, V. Sreenivasa Prasad, on Thursday rejoined the Congress after a decade in the Janata Dal (Secular) and the Samata Party.

Mr. Prasad, who was Minister of State in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Government, had taken a break from electoral politics and distanced himself from the Samata Party.

Addressing mediapersons at the AICC headquarters here, Mr. Prasad said he left the Congress in 1996 on being denied a ticket despite having been elected to Parliament on four previous occasions since 1980. Later, he sided with senior leader George Fernandes and became a Samata Party MP.

He was president of the party in Karnataka, and his name was dragged into the Tehelka episode. Subsequently, Tehelka clarified that he was wrongly identified in the sting operation. "I was not there [as reported] with Ms. Jaya Jaitly [then Samata Party president], and was in Mysore on tour. I also filed a defamation suit," he said.

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