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New Delhi: Former Punjab Vidhan Sabha Speaker Charanjit Singh Atwal joined the BJP in the presence of the party’s national president JP Nadda in Delhi.
Last month, Charanjit Singh Atwal resigned from the primary membership of the Shiromani Akali Dal a few days after his son Inder Iqbal Atwal joined the BJP. The Bharatiya Janata Party has made Inder Iqbal Singh Atwal, who recently quit the Akali Dal, its candidate for the Lok Sabha by-election for the Jalandhar seat in Punjab.
#WATCH | Charanjit Singh Atwal, former Speaker of Punjab Assembly, joins BJP in the presence of party national president JP Nadda, in Delhi pic.twitter.com/E2GSp8gr0p
— ANI (@ANI) May 5, 2023
86-year-old Charanjit Singh Atwal was the Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 2004 to 2009. He had to face defeat from Santokh Singh Chaudhary of Congress from Jalandhar constituency in 2019 Lok Sabha elections. He was once considered to be close to the former Chief Minister of Punjab late Parkash Singh Badal.
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