Ahead of the Punjab Assembly polls scheduled for next year, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)’s former MLA Jagdeep Singh Nakai and close aide of Sukhbir Singh Badal joined the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Along with Jagdeep Singh Nakai, Ravipreet Singh Sidhu, Shamsher Singh Rai and Harbhag Singh Desu joined BJP in the presence of state party in-charge Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and other senior BJP leaders. Shekhawat, while welcoming the leaders into the party, said the way the eminent personalities are joining the BJP is a sign that the wave is in favour of the BJP.
“These personalities were working for their parties for years but still joined our party as they believe in the ideology of BJP. On Tuesday, the two Congress MLAs, Fateh Jung Singh Bajwa and Balwinder Singh Laddi, joined the BJP,” the BJP leader said.
“One of oldest names in Punjab politics is Jagdeep Singh Nakai who had a long association with SAD, is joining BJP. Ravipreet Singh Sidhu, the young face of Punjab, who worked at different positions in SAD is also joining BJP today. Former Congress MLA Rai and a prominent OBC leader Desu also joined us,” BJP election in-charge of Punjab said.
Jagdeep Singh Nakai, who is a close aide of SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal, said that Badal’s party has gone a little off-track.