Former Punjab Congress president Sunil Jakhar joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of party president J.P. Nadda in Delhi on Thursday, May 19.
Jakhar had quit the Congress last week after lashing out at former Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Twitter, saying that he was “not an asset” as portrayed by the party leadership.
A former Lok Sabha member, Jakhar was removed from all party posts by the Congress disciplinary committee following allegations of anti-party activities by certain Punjab unit leaders against him.
He also lashed out at veteran Congress leader Ambika Soni for her statement on the “repercussions of having a Hindu chief minister in Punjab”. Jakhar also held Soni’s statement as one of the reasons for the Congress’ drubbing in the Punjab assembly polls earlier this year.
“Three generations of my family served the Congress party over the last 50 years. Today, I have broken that 50-year-old tie with the party over the issues of nationalism, unity and brotherhood in Punjab,” Times of India quoted Jakhar as saying after he formally joined BJP.
