BJP Hisar MP Brijendra Singh quits party, joins Congress
Chandigarh/New Delhi, Mar 10: Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, BJP MP from Hisar Brijendra Singh on Sunday resigned from the party's primary membership due to "compelling political reasons" and joined the Congress.
Soon after announcing his resignation on X, Brijendra Singh, the son of BJP leader Birender Singh, reached Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's residence in New Delhi and joined the opposition party.
"I have resigned from the primary membership of BJP due to compelling political reasons. I extend gratitude to the party, National President Sh. J P Nadda, Prime Minister Sh. Narendra Modi, & Sh Amit Shah for giving me the opportunity to serve as the Member of Parliament for Hisar," Brijendra Singh said in his post.
Senior Congress leaders Ajay Maken, Mukul Wasnik and Deepak Babaria were also present at Kharge's residence when Brijendra Singh joined the party.
Congress sources said the bureaucrat-turned-politician is set to be the party candidate from Hisar.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Brijendra Singh had defeated JJP's Dushyant Chautala and Bhavya Bishnoi, who was then with the Congress, to win the Hisar Lok Sabha seat.
Brijendra Singh is the great grandson of prominent Jat leader Sir Chhotu Ram.
VIDEO | Lok Sabha elections 2024: Hisar MP Brijendra Singh joins Congress in presence of party president Mallikarjun Kharge in Delhi.
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) March 10, 2024
Singh had resigned from BJP earlier today "due to compelling political reasons." pic.twitter.com/kclaFNGgRY
VIDEO | "The BJP-JJP alliance was one of the reasons (behind leaving the party)," says Hisar MP Brijendra Singh (@BrijendraSpeaks) after joining the Congress.
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) March 10, 2024
Singh had resigned from BJP earlier today "due to compelling political reasons."
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Body of Bihar Police personnel found hanging in barracks in Patna
Patna (PTI): The body of a Bihar Police personnel was found hanging from the ceiling of a room in his barracks here, a senior officer said on Sunday.
Patna Senior Superintendent of Police Kartikeya Sharma said a havildar with Bihar State Armed Police-1, popularly known as "Gorkha battalion", died allegedly by suicide as he had been suffering from some ailment.
The deceased left behind "two suicide notes", one in Hindi and the other in his native language Nepali.
"From the suicide notes, it appears that Navraj Sunar, the deceased havildar, had been suffering from some ailment which had caused him much mental anguish and may have driven him to take the extreme step," the SSP said.
The body was being sent to the native village of the deceased in Nepal after a post-mortem examination, while further investigations were on, with forensic experts inspecting the site of the incident.
