Charanjit Atwal's son and ex-SAD MLA Inder Iqbal Singh Atwal joins BJP

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New Delhi, April 9

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader and former MLA Inder Iqbal Singh Atwal joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in New Delhi on Sunday. His induction was held at the party’s national headquarters in the presence of Cabinet Minister Hardeep Singh Puri and other senior BJP leaders.

Atwal, who quit the SAD to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is the son of Charanjit Singh Atwal, who was the deputy speaker of the 14th Lok Sabha from 2004 to 2009 and who also served as the speaker of the Punjab Assembly in the past.

Along with Atwal, his younger brother Jasjeet Singh Atwal and other leaders from Punjab also joined the BJP at the party headquarters here.

Eminent leaders from Punjab, Sardar Inder Iqbal Singh Atwal, Sardar Jasjeet Singh Atwal and several others, #JoinBJP at party headquarters in New Delhi. pic.twitter.com/B6sq4RSrP6

— BJP (@BJP4India) April 9, 2023

Eminent personalities from Punjab #JoinBJP at party headquarters in New Delhi. https://t.co/nD0lKhGY0B

— BJP (@BJP4India) April 9, 2023

Earlier, on Saturday, CR Kesavan, the great-grandson of India’s first Indian Governor-General, C Rajagopalachari, joined the BJP.

Kesavan resigned from Congress on February 23, saying that he has not even seen vestiges of the values that made him work for the party with dedication for over two decades.

Kesavan shared his resignation letter to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Twitter saying he could no longer concur with “what the party symbolises, stands for or seeks to propagate”.

His resignation came within a month of the desertion by former Union minister AK Antony’s son, Anil Antony, who parted ways with the party after coming out in support of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the controversial BBC documentary series.

Earlier on Friday, former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, joined the BJP here in the national capital. Reddy, who served as the last chief minister of undivided Andhra Pradesh, joined the BJP in the presence of Union minister Prahlad Joshi, general secretary Arun Singh and MP K Laxman, at a function organised at the party headquarters.

The developments come ahead of the next year’s Lok Sabha elections.