After resigning from the Haryana assembly on Thursday, former Congress MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi will join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today.
BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla tweeted, “An eminent personality will join BJP today at 6DDU marg , New Delhi at 12:30pm”.
An eminent personality will join BJP today at 6DDU marg , New Delhi at 12:30pm
— Shehzad Jai Hind (@Shehzad_Ind) August 4, 2022
After submitting the resignation, Kuldeep Bishnoi said, "In view of public sentiments of my workers in Punjab and Haryana, I have decided to join the BJP. The present Congress party has not been the Congress of Indira and Rajiv Gandhi. It has strayed from its ideology. It is moving towards elimination due to wrong decisions of Congress across the country."
Meanwhile, Bishnoi's supporters gathered outside the BJP headquarters in Delhi on Thursday morning.
Haryana Congress leader Kuldeep Bishnoi who resigned as MLA yesterday is likely to join BJP today
— ANI (@ANI) August 4, 2022
Bishnoi's supporters gather outside BJP headquarters in Delhi pic.twitter.com/q274cyQweT
Kuldeep Bishnoi, after quitting as MLA from the Adampur constituency in Haryana, also challenged Bhupinder Singh Hooda to contest and win the seat vacated by him.