<p>New Delhi: Former <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/aap">AAP</a> MP from <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/india/punjab">Punjab</a>'s <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/patiala">Patiala</a>, Dharamvir Gandhi on Monday joined the <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/congress">Congress</a> in the presence of senior party leaders.</p>.<p>His joining comes ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. Gandhi is likely to contest as a Congress candidate from the Patiala seat.</p>.<p>Dharamvir Gandhi won the Lok Sabha election as an AAP candidate in 2014 by defeating Preneet Kaur from Patiala.</p>.Senior Punjab Congress leader Raj Kumar Chabbewal quits party, joins AAP.<p>Gandhi, who is a doctor by profession, later quit the AAP in 2016 and formed his own outfit Nawan Punjab Party, which he merged with the Congress on Monday.</p>.<p>Party leaders Pawan Khera and AICC in-charge for Punjab, Devendra Yadav, Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh Raja Warring and CLP leader Pratap Singh Bajwa welcomed Gandhi into the party fold.</p>.<p>Bajwa said that the Congress will be strengthened with his joining while Warring said such professionals joining the the party is a good sign.</p>
<p>New Delhi: Former <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/aap">AAP</a> MP from <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/india/punjab">Punjab</a>'s <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/patiala">Patiala</a>, Dharamvir Gandhi on Monday joined the <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/congress">Congress</a> in the presence of senior party leaders.</p>.<p>His joining comes ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. Gandhi is likely to contest as a Congress candidate from the Patiala seat.</p>.<p>Dharamvir Gandhi won the Lok Sabha election as an AAP candidate in 2014 by defeating Preneet Kaur from Patiala.</p>.Senior Punjab Congress leader Raj Kumar Chabbewal quits party, joins AAP.<p>Gandhi, who is a doctor by profession, later quit the AAP in 2016 and formed his own outfit Nawan Punjab Party, which he merged with the Congress on Monday.</p>.<p>Party leaders Pawan Khera and AICC in-charge for Punjab, Devendra Yadav, Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh Raja Warring and CLP leader Pratap Singh Bajwa welcomed Gandhi into the party fold.</p>.<p>Bajwa said that the Congress will be strengthened with his joining while Warring said such professionals joining the the party is a good sign.</p>