Sitting MP Savitribai Phule joined Congress on Saturday in the presence of party president Rahul Gandhi, General Secretary for UP (East) Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and General Secretary for UP (West) Jyotiraditya Scindia. Phule was elected from the Bahraich Lok Sabha constituency in 2014 elections from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Phule had resigned from the BJP on December 6, accusing of it dividing the society and not doing enough on the issue of reservation.