CHANDIGARH: Five Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leaders were among six politicians who joined the BJP on Monday. Those who left the SAD include Amanjot Kaur Ramoowalia, the daughter of former Union Minister Balwant Singh Ramoowalia. A
They were inducted into the saffron camp at the BJP headquarters in Delhi in the presence of Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, MP and Punjab in-charge Dushyant Gautam and national General Secretary Tarun Chugh who is from Amritsar. The new entrants into the BJP include SAD leaders Gurpreet Singh Shahpur, Chand Singh Chhatha, Baljinder Singh Dakoha, and Jathedar Preetam Singh and Chetan Mohan Joshi founder member of AAP.
Balwant Singh Ramoowalia, who was a former minister of Uttar Pradesh in the Akhilesh Yadav government said, “My daughter has stabbed me she never told me and not even her daughter and son-in-law that she is joining the saffron party. We are from a freedom fighters family and the farmers agitation is no less than a freedom struggle. She has also betrayed the farmers by joining the BJP. I and my wife will not forgive her.’’
Meanwhile, wecloming the turncoats, Union Minister Gajneder Shekhawat said, “People have put faith in the BJP. There are people in the opposition trying to regain power by manipulating farmers, but people will neglect them as winds of change are blowing in the state.”