Malikayya Guttedar joins Congress once more

Two Punjab Congress leaders, including its national secretary Tajinder Pal Singh Bittu, joined the BJP in New Delhi on April 20 as the ruling party at the Centre bolsters its ranks in the State ahead of the Lok Sabha polls there.

Mr. Bittu announced his resignation from the Congress hours before joining the BJP.

He and Karamjit Kaur Chaudhary, the wife of late Congress veteran Santokh Singh Chaudhary, joined the BJP in the presence of Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and its national general secretary Vinod Tawde.

Mrs. Chaudhary had last year unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha bypoll in Jalandhar following the death of her husband, who was the sitting MP.