Former Punjab Congress president Sunil Jakhar, who stop the occasion on May 14 with a “good luck and good bye”, joined the BJP in Delhi on Thursday.
BJP president JP Nadda welcomed Jakhar into the BJP fold. Jakhar is realized to have had a gathering with Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday, with the BJP reportedly eager to have Jakhar within the occasion.
Jakhar can be a formidable Hindu face, with no baggage, for the BJP in a state the place it’s looking for its toes with out former ally Akali Dal. While he belongs to a outstanding Jat household, Jakhar enjoys the help of different communities within the state as nicely.
Jakhar had introduced his resignation from the Congress on Facebook Live, which coincided with the second day of the occasion’s Chintan Shivir in Rajasthan, to speak about reviving the occasion.
In a hard-hitting handle lasting greater than half an hour, Jakhar had questioned Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s dealing with of occasion affairs and expressed anguish over the show-cause discover to him after 50 years of affiliation with the occasion.
He was additionally important of senior Congress management, together with Ambika Soni, former Punjab affairs in-charge Harish Rawat, and present in-charge Harish Chaudhary. Mincing no phrases, Jakhar had suggested Gandhi household to be cautious of “sycophants” and take the result in revive the Congress, saying it had been decreased from as soon as “khaat pe charcha” to “khatiya”.
The three-time MLA and one-time MP had been served show-cause discover on April 11 for “not toeing the party line” and making remarks in opposition to senior management of the occasion. Jakhar was supposed to reply to the discover in per week’s time. He nonetheless by no means responded to the discover and insisted that prime management of the occasion ought to have spoken to him as an alternative of issuing the discover.
Announcing his resignation, Jakhar had mentioned that his ties with the Congress obtained snapped the day the discover was issued to him, however that he had waited to make the formal announcement as a consequence of his lengthy affiliation with the occasion and his private equations with Rahul Gandhi.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
