Former Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam along with his wife and daughter on Friday joined the Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena.

Sanjay Nirupam joined the Shiv Sena in the presence of Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde.

Sanjay Nirupam joined his `alma mater` Shiv Sena, now headed by Eknath Shinde, nearly two decades after he quit the undivided party which was his political launchpad in Mumbai.

Sanjay Nirupam had joined Congress in 2005 and was appointed as general secretary of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee. He won the Mumbai North Lok Sabha seat in the 2009 elections, defeating BJP veteran Ram Naik by a narrow margin in a keenly fought contest.

Sanjay Nirupam held various positions in the Congress in the last 19 years and had also headed the city unit, before falling out of grace of the party leadership.

The Congress had expelled Sanjay Nirupam last month for six years for “indiscipline and anti-party statements”, days after he gave a `one-week ultimatum` to the party over the Mumbai North-West seat, which he was eyeing.

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