Kanhaiya Kumar joins Congress, says saving party crucial for country

He said there is a sense of urgency to save the country and the youth should create an atmosphere in this regard

Former JNU students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar joined the Congress on Tuesday in the presence of Rahul Gandhi, saying the "country cannot be saved" without "saving" the oldest party.

Kumar addressed a press conference at the Congress headquarters here along with independent Gujarat MLA and Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani who too extended his support to the Congress ideology and said he would contest the next assembly polls on the Congress symbol.

Asserting that it is detrimental to a country's interests if the Opposition is weakened as those in power become authoritarian, Kumar, who quit the Communist Party of India (CPI), described the