<p>Patna: The <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/search?q=Congress">Congress</a> in Bihar on Wednesday claimed to have received a shot in the arm with the induction of JD(U) leader and former MLA Poonam Devi Yadav.</p>.<p>She joined the Congress here at the Sadaqat Ashram, the BPCC headquarters, in the presence of state president Akhilesh Prasad Singh.</p>.<p>Yadav, who had won the Khagaria assembly seat three times in a row, lost to Chhatrapati Yadav of the Congress in 2020 polls by a thin margin of 3,000 votes.</p>.<p>Her husband Ranveer Yadav had also won the seat, in 1990, as an Independent.</p>.Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Case against 2 poll personnel in Palghar for failure to distribute voter slips.<p>However, talking to reporters on the occasion, she said "I feel that I have returned home after a long 'vanvaas' (period spent in wilderness). Old timers would recall that I had made my debut in the late 1990s on a Congress ticket. After my defeat, leaders of the Samata Party convinced me to cross over, stressing that Congress was a spent force".</p>.<p>Notably, the JD(U), headed by Nitish Kumar, was earlier known as Samata Party, which he had floated in the 1990s, along with mentor late George Fernandes.</p>
<p>Patna: The <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/search?q=Congress">Congress</a> in Bihar on Wednesday claimed to have received a shot in the arm with the induction of JD(U) leader and former MLA Poonam Devi Yadav.</p>.<p>She joined the Congress here at the Sadaqat Ashram, the BPCC headquarters, in the presence of state president Akhilesh Prasad Singh.</p>.<p>Yadav, who had won the Khagaria assembly seat three times in a row, lost to Chhatrapati Yadav of the Congress in 2020 polls by a thin margin of 3,000 votes.</p>.<p>Her husband Ranveer Yadav had also won the seat, in 1990, as an Independent.</p>.Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Case against 2 poll personnel in Palghar for failure to distribute voter slips.<p>However, talking to reporters on the occasion, she said "I feel that I have returned home after a long 'vanvaas' (period spent in wilderness). Old timers would recall that I had made my debut in the late 1990s on a Congress ticket. After my defeat, leaders of the Samata Party convinced me to cross over, stressing that Congress was a spent force".</p>.<p>Notably, the JD(U), headed by Nitish Kumar, was earlier known as Samata Party, which he had floated in the 1990s, along with mentor late George Fernandes.</p>