Days after quitting Congress, Sunil Jakhar joins BJP

New Delhi, May 19 (PTI) Days after resigning from the party, senior Punjab Congress leader Sunil Jakhar joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday, 19 May.

Jakhar had quit the Congress last week after lashing out at former Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Twitter, saying that he was "not an asset" as portrayed by the party leadership.

A former Lok Sabha member, Jakhar was removed from all party posts by the Congress disciplinary committee following allegations of anti-party activities by certain Punjab unit leaders against him.

In his address, he had said that thousands of party workers cannot express what they truly feel at the 'Chintan Shivir' and trained guns at party leader Ambika Soni for its debacle in the recently concluded Assembly elections in Punjab.

He lashed out at veteran Congress leader Ambika Soni for her statement on the "repercussions of having a Hindu chief minister in Punjab". 

In his address, Jhakhar had said: "I urge you (Sonia Gandhi) to ask Ambika Soni if she knows what is Sikhism."

Jakhar also held Soni's statement as one of the reasons for the Congress' drubbing in the Punjab assembly polls earlier this year.