Ahead of the 2022 Punjab Assembly election, two Congress legislators, Fateh Jung Singh Bajwa and Balwinder Singh Laddi, Tuesday joined the BJP. Fateh Jung is the MLA from Qadian constituency and the brother of Rajya Sabha MP and senior Congress leader Partap Singh Bajwa, while Laddi is the legislator from Hargobindpur.
Besides the two sitting MLAs, former India cricketer Dinesh Mongia, former MP Rajdev Singh Khalsa, former MLA Gurtej Singh Ghuriana and United Christian Front of Punjab president Kamal Bakshi joined the BJP and were welcomed into the party by state incharge and Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat.
Shekhawat said leaders from other parties are joining the BJP as it is gaining ground in Punjab.The joinings come a day after BJP announced its alliance with former chief minister Amarinder Singh’s Punjab Lok Congress and former Union minister Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa’s SAD (Sanyukt) and said they will have a common manifesto for the 2022 Assembly polls.
