Chandigarh: Veteran Punjab Congress leader Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi quit Congress and joined the BJP on Tuesday. Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi was a former minister and Congress MLA for the last four terms.
‘I cannot accept Punjab’s suffocation and helplessness! Congress party has put state’s security & communal harmony at stake. With deep agony, I put forth my resignation from all posts & primary membership of Congress party with immediate effect’, said Sodhi in the resignation letter.
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He joined the BJP in the presence of Union ministers Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and Bhupender Yadav.
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