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. He represented Nainital (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency) on a BJP ticket in the

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. He also happens to be the son of the former speaker of Uttarakhand assembly

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. The father-son duo joined BJP a month ahead of the 2017 assembly elections in Uttarakhand in the presence of the then BJP National President

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. On 11 October 2021, Sanjeev and his father joined the Congress party in the presence of party leaders Harish Rawat,

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and KC Venugopal in Delhi.

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