{"id":304743,"date":"2018-10-27T08:18:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T08:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304743"},"modified":"2018-10-27T08:18:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T08:18:20","slug":"former-ncp-leader-tariq-anwar-joins-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/former-ncp-leader-tariq-anwar-joins-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NCP leader Tariq Anwar joins Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/former-ncp-leader-tariq-anwar-joins-congress\/rahul-tanwar\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-304744\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-304744 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/rahul-tanwar-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"703\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/rahul-tanwar-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/rahul-tanwar-768x541.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/rahul-tanwar-1024x721.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/rahul-tanwar-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/rahul-tanwar-696x490.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/rahul-tanwar-1068x752.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/rahul-tanwar-596x420.jpg 596w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/rahul-tanwar.jpg 1099w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 703px) 100vw, 703px\" \/><\/a>Tariq Anwar on Saturday returned to the Congress, more than 19 years after he quit the party to form the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Anwar joined Congress after he met Congress President Rahul Gandhi at the latter&#8217;s Tughlaq Lane residence in New Delhi in the presence of Congress general secretary Ashok Gehlot and Shaktisinh Gohil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Tariq Anwar on September 28 had resigned from NCP and Parliament following party chief Sharad Pawar\u2019s defence\u00a0of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Rafale deal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Anwar, a Lok Sabha member from Katihar in Bihar, was founding member &amp; General Secretary of NCP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Tariq Anwar was hurt by Sharad Pawar\u2019s interview to Marathi news channel defending PM Modi in Rafale Deal. Pawar raised questions over Congress\u2019s demand asking the government to divulge the details of the Rafale deal.\u00a0 However, he said that the government shouldn\u2019t have a problem in revealing the price of the fighter jets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In 1990s a former president of Congress\u2019 Bihar unit, Anwar along with Pawar and PA Sangma formed NCP, opposing Sonia Gandhi taking over as AICC president on grounds of her foreign origin.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tariq Anwar on Saturday returned to the Congress, more than 19 years after he quit the party to form the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). Anwar joined Congress after he met Congress President Rahul Gandhi at the latter&#8217;s Tughlaq Lane residence in New Delhi in the presence of Congress general secretary Ashok Gehlot and Shaktisinh Gohil. 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