Nothing New: Birender On Son Not Getting Cong Ticket | Chandigarh News - Times of India

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Jind: After his son and Hisar MP

Brijendra Singh

was overlooked by the

Congress party

in

ticket distribution

,

Birender Singh

on Friday said the situation was not new for him in the 50 years of his political career.

Brijendra, who won the 2019 election on the BJP ticket after relinquishing his post as an IAS officer, had earlier resigned from his seat and the saffron party, citing Agniveer scheme, farmers' protest and wrestlers' issues as a reason, and joined the Congress.

Former Union minister Birender Singh along with his wife Prem Lata, an ex-MLA, had also left BJP earlier this month to join the Congress.

Talking to TOI, Birender Singh said: "I have faced such a situation three times in my political career. There was a time when the Congress won the election in 1991 and I was heading the party in Haryana, but I didn't get the CM's post."

"I have faced a similar situation, which my son is experiencing now," he said.

After quitting the BJP, Brijendra had been strongly vying for a Congress ticket from the Hisar Lok Sabha seat. However, his name was missing from the list of eight candidates released by the Congress party late Thursday night.

"Politics is a game of uncertainty and one doesn't know what will happen next. However, my ideology matches with the Congress and I will remain with this party. I have rejoined the party to strengthen it and tickets don't matter for us," said Birender Singh.

Birender also said it was an exception in the nation that a sitting BJP MP had resigned from his post and joined the Congress.

Brijendra has met Rahul Gandhi two-three times after quitting the BJP and both are well known to each other and all was reportedly well between the two.

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