Newly appointed Congress president in Tripura Pradyot Kishore Debburman on Sunday invited all former party leaders to return to the party-fold and said everyone would be given due respect.
Mr. Debburman, who was the working president of the Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee, was appointed the TPCC president by AICC chief Rahul Gandhi on February 25.
Mr. Debburman met expelled leader and former Chief Minister Samir Ranjan Barman and asked him to return to the party. Mr. Barman did not join any party after his expulsion from the Congress in March 2017. He accepted Mr. Debburman’s invitation and rejoined the party on Saturday.
A large number of leaders, led by former Pradesh Congress president Sudip Roy Barman, had defected to the TMC in 2016 and to the BJP in 2017.