Ranchi: Mandar MLA Bandhu Tirkey and Poriyahat’s legislator Pradeep Yadav, who joined the Congress party soon after the 2019 assembly polls, are going through an ‘identity crisis’ even though it’s been months since they joined the grand old party.
Both were part of the now defunct JVM-P but when party president Babulal Marandi merged it with BJP, the duo joined Congress, resulting in Marandi claiming that JVM-P merged with the saffron party while Tirkey and Yadav asserting that the JVM (P)-BJP merger is invalid since with them crossing over to the Congress camp, JVM-P has merged with the grand old party.