Kathmandu. Jitendra Narayan Dev, who left the CPN-UML two weeks ago, has joined the Nepali Congress. On Tuesday, Dev entered the Congress in a program organized at the Congress office in Rajviraj, Saptari. Saptari District President of Congress Ramdev Sah and Deputy President Ram Kumar Yadav welcomed him with garlands.

Along with this, he has also announced his return to the Congress by issuing a press release. He said that he returned because of the changes in the Gagan Thapa-led Congress.  "Welcoming, supporting and assimilating the policies, ideas, plans, proposals and commitments passed by the recently concluded special national convention of the Nepali Congress, I am fully committed and faithful to the central working committee led by Mr. Gagan Kumar Thapa elected by the special national convention. I formally announce the return of all my friends who have always supported and supported me since today's date," Dev said. 

He believes that the Thapa-led Congress will change the country. Dev has said, "I have full confidence that the new policy and new leadership of the new progressive thinking passed by the special national convention will effectively and decisively advance the campaign of socio-political transformation in the country and will change the country in the interest of the people just as they started the process of changing the party."