Kamaal Farooqui rejoins Congress after 20 years in Maharashtra

Kamaal Farooqui, a senior politician from the Marathwada region of Maharashtra, rejoined Indian National Congress, after 20 years of hiatus. The comeback of Kamaal Farooqui is seen as a huge boost for the Congress party in the upcoming Maharashtra assembly elections.

After leaving Congress in 2004, Farooqui



contested elections on a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) ticket but later joined Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).

His son Umar Kamaal Farooqui also joined the Congress. A former youth leader of NCP, Umar had functioned as vice-president of the NCP’s student wing while being the party’s state spokesperson.