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Two years aft leaving for the BJP, erstwhile Rajasthan Minister Mahendrajit Singh Malviya returned to the Congress aft the party's apical enactment approved his re-induction.
The connection was cleared by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, aft which an authoritative missive confirming Mr. Malviya's instrumentality to the enactment was issued precocious connected Friday (January 16, 2026). His ceremonial joining is expected to instrumentality spot astatine the State Congress bureau soon.
The determination followed a multi-level reappraisal process. Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Govind Singh Dotasra sent a elaborate study to the All India Congress Committee (AICC) successful New Delhi.
Raids were carried retired by the Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau days aft Mr. Malviya, a erstwhile Cabinet Minister, signalled his volition to instrumentality to the Congress. He had discontinue the Congress and joined the BJP astir 2 years agone up of the erstwhile elections.
Earlier, a gathering of the Rajasthan Congress disciplinary committee, chaired by erstwhile Minister Udaylal Anjana, had recommended Mr. Malviya's instrumentality to the party.
However, the substance was referred to the AICC arsenic Mr. Malviya had earlier been a subordinate of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), making a State-level determination procedurally inadequate, enactment leaders said.
Mr. Dotasra aboriginal said that since Mr. Malviya had served arsenic a CWC member, the last determination was taken astatine the AICC level, and ceremonial orders approving his instrumentality had present been issued.
Mr. Dotasra described the enactment arsenic "a disgrace to democracy" and alleged that agencies were being misused for governmental vendetta.
Mr. Malviya, a erstwhile MP from the tribal-dominated Banswara spot and a Cabinet Minister successful the erstwhile Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government, had earlier cited his inability to relation nether the BJP Government arsenic the crushed for his projected switch.
He had alleged that payment schemes specified arsenic MGNREGA were suffering delays and that farmers were facing fertiliser shortages, contempt repeated representations to the government.
