Jalandhar, August 16

Former Jalandhar Cantonment MLA and Punjab Water Resources Management and Development Corporation Chairman Jagbir Brar today left the Congress to rejoin the SAD here.

SAD chief Sukhbir Badal, who visited Brar’s residence, announced him as the candidate from the Cantt seat for the upcoming Assembly polls, besides appointing him as the general secretary of the state unit.

Sukhbir termed his return “ghar wapsi”, saying the Congress had lost an asset, whom the SAD would deploy to strengthen the party. Former minister Bikram Majithia said Brar was known for humility and goodwill among the masses and that his joining would strengthen the party in Doaba. Brar, once CM Capt Amarinder Singh’s loyalist, said: “I was not comfortable in the Congress since it is a bifurcated house — one led by the CM and the other by Navjot Sidhu… I failed to understand how Sidhu can criticise his own government at its fag end.” — TNS