New Delhi: Former People’s Democratic Party (PDP) MLC Mr Vikramaditya Singh, the son of ex-Union minister Dr Karan Singh, joined the Congress on Thursday in the presence of senior party leaders.

Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad and general secretary incharge of Jammu and Kashmir Ambika Soni were present, when the former PDP leader joined the party. Mr Singh had earlier met the Congress president Rahul Gandhi.

Mr Azad said, “ The entry of Mr. Singh will help the party in the Jammu region and will stop the growth of the BJP in the region. Ear-lier also his family had stopped the growth of the BJP in the region. I welcome him to the par-ty.” Interestingly, Mr. Singh is also the son-in-law of the late Congress leader Madhavrao Scindhia.

Mr Singh had resigned from the PDP and the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council in October 2017, saying it was “neither morally, nor ethically right” to continue as a party member. In his resignation letter to PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti, who was the state’s chief minister at the time, Mr Singh had said it was clear that the PDP ignored subjects that “stron-gly reflect the sentime-nts of the people of the Jammu region”.