Three former Congress leaders get key BJP titles in new shuffle

Former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh and Sunil Jakhar have been made members of BJP nationwide govt.

The Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) on Friday appointed former Congress spokesperson Jaiveer Shergill its nationwide spokesperson. It additionally appointed former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh and Sunil Jakhar in addition to its former Uttar Pradesh president Swatantra Dev Singh as members of its nationwide govt, the celebration stated in a press release.

Madan Kaushik, Vishnu Deo Sai, its former presidents of Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh respectively, Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi, Manoranjan Kalia and Amanjot Kaur Ramoowalia, all three from Punjab, have been made particular invitees to the nationwide govt, the celebration stated.

Shergill, who's a lawyer by occupation and was one of many distinguished ones amongst younger Congress leaders, on August 24, tendered his resignation claiming that the imaginative and prescient of the decision-makers not was in sync with the aspirations of the youth.

Former Punjab Congress chief Jakhar too parted methods with the Congress in Might this yr.

Singh give up the Congress after he was unceremoniously eliminated as Punjab chief minister final yr. The previous chief minister, who joined politics in 1969, floated his personal political outfit Punjab Lok Congress after quitting the Congress. He merged his outfit with the BJP after he joined the celebration.