Shatrughan Sinha joins Congress, fielded from Patna Sahib against BJP’s Ravi Shankar Prasad

Actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha joined the Congress on Saturday at the party headquarters in New Delhi.  He was with the BJP till recently.

Hours later, the Congress announced his candidature for the Patna Sahib Lok Sabha cinstituency in Bihar to take on Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.

Congress general secretary K.C. Venugopal, party spokesperson Randeep Surjewala and in charge of party’s Bihar unit Shaktisinh Gohil welcomed Mr. Sinha into the party fold. Mr. Venugopal termed him the “best politician who was earlier with the wrong party“.