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BJP National General Secretaries Tarun Chugh and Vinod Tawde and BJP chief Manjinder Singh Sirsa with former ambassador of India to US Taranjit Singh Sandhu because the latter joins the get together.(Photo: PTI)
India’s former ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday. He is one other addition to a rising record of retired bureaucrats and people who have taken voluntary retirement and joined the BJP lately.
Since retiring from the Indian Foreign Service on the finish of January and coming back from the US, Sandhu has reached out to a cross-section of society in his hometown, Amritsar, which has contributed to the hypothesis that he might contest the Lok Sabha (LS) as a BJP candidate from that seat.
Congress’ Patiala LS Member of Parliament Preneet Kaur joined the BJP final week. Her husband, former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh, joined the BJP in September 2022. Former Congress chief Sunil Jakhar is at present the BJP’s state unit chief.
After becoming a member of the BJP, Sandhu addressed a press convention within the nationwide capital. Sandhu, India’s ambassador to the US for 4 years from February 2020 till the top of January this yr, underlined that the India-US bilateral relationship in these 4 years has graduated to “a win-win partnership” in at the very least 5 sectors. He mentioned the US investments into India have elevated, because the joint assertion issued throughout Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s go to to the US final yr talked about. There is larger cooperation in well being care, training, manufacturing of semiconductors, and photo voltaic power.
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TARANJIT SINGH SANDHU: Former IFS, prone to contest from Amritsar
ABHIJIT GANGOPADHYAY: Former Calcutta High Court decide, not too long ago joined BJP, might contest LS polls
R Okay Singh: Former IAS, Union minister, LS MP from Arrah in 2014 and 2019
S JAISHANKAR: Former international secretary, Union minister, RS MP
HARDEEP SINGH PURI: Former IFS, Union minister, RS MP
SATYA PAL SINGH: former IPS, LS MP from Baghpat in 2014 and 2019
ASHWINI VAISHNAW: Former IAS, Union minister, RS MP
SOM PRAKASH: Former IAS, Union minister, LS MP (Hoshiarpur)
ARJUN RAM MEGHWAL: Former IAS, Union minister, LS MP from Bikaner
APARAJITA SARANGI: Former IAS, LS MP from Bhubaneswar
O P CHOUDHARY: Former IAS, Chhattisgarh finance minister, MLA from Raigarh
NEELKANTH TEKAM: Former IAS, MLA from Chhattisgarh’s Keshkal
GENERAL (RETIRED) V Okay SINGH: Union minister, LS MP from Ghaziabad
First Published: Mar 19 2024 | 6:38 PM IST
