Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru

New Delhi, Sep 19 (IANS): Weeks after quitting Congress, former Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee chief Ajoy Kumar on Thursday joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) here.

Kumar, who is also a former Lok Sabha MP, said the AAP is the only alternative in the current political situation.

AAP leader Manish Sisodia welcomed Kumar into the party in the presence of other leaders at the party office here.

A Mangalurean by birth, Ajoy Kumar was born as Ajay Kumar Bhandary to Vathsala and K S Bhandary. He did his schooling from Hyderabad Public School. He has also served Jamshedpur as an IPS officer from 1986 for 10 years. He was termed by the media as an encounter specialist during his tenure as the city SP from the year 1994 to 1996. 

Kumar quit the Congress in August, levelling serious allegations against his senior party colleagues.

Jharkhand will go to polls later in the year as the tenure of Chief Minister Raghubar Das will end in December.

With IANS inputs