MANGALURU: Two months after former IPS officer K Annamalai shed khaki and joined the BJP, former IAS officer S Sasikanth Senthil has decided to join the Congress on Monday to spice up the 2021 Tamil Nadu assembly electoral battle.
The former bureaucrat will join the Congress in Chennai on Monday in presence of AICC secretary Dinesh Gundu Rao and party state president KS Alagiri.
Senthil, who quit the services last year after a 10-year stint as Karnatakacadre officer, said he thought of ‘working outside the system’ during fierce anti-CAA protests and NRC discussions in Dakshina Kannada district last year.
Senthil: Focus is to strengthen Cong
We can’t afford (these) vested interests to fill India with hate and hand it over to our children. In that journey, I have decided to be part of the Congress movement to realise this goal,” he said.
Senthil said in a tweet: “I’ve been an activist trying to be a voice for the less privileged all through my life wherever I was and will continue the same until my last breath.” He said he chose Congress since its ideologies are consistent with what forms the bedrock of the Constitution. Stating the Congress leadership recognises “India has to be for all”, he said his focus is to strengthen the party.
In August, Annamalai joined BJP as vice-president of Tamil Nadu unit and is preparing for electoral plunge in the next year’s assembly elections. Senthil, sources said, will be drafted for organisatioal work with an eye on the next parliamentary elections.
He said home state Tamil Nadu was the final frontier for divisive forces and he had a responsibility to maintain “this Sparta as a symbol of no conquest within the country”.