Six months aft quitting the party, erstwhile MLA and ex-Punjab curate Anil Joshi connected Monday rejoined the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) successful the beingness of enactment president Sukhbir Singh Badal successful Ludhiana.
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Welcoming Joshi backmost into the party, Badal said helium would articulation SAD’s predetermination run for the June 19 by-election to the Ludhiana West Assembly seat.
Stating that Joshi was similar his younger brother, Badal said, “Our enslaved spans 2 decades. It gives maine immense pleasance that Joshi ji has decided to rejoin SAD successful the involvement of Punjab and Punjabiat. We each consciousness determination is simply a request to bring backmost the epoch of bid and communal harmony and we volition strive for the same.”
Joshi said, “The request of the hr is to fortify the determination party, which unsocial understands and chalks retired its programmes and policies arsenic per the aspirations of Punjabis.”
The SAD ever safeguarded the interests of Punjabis and helium was assured that it would proceed to bespeak the aspirations of each and each conception of the society, Joshi added.
Joshi, who resigned from the Akali Dal connected November 20 past year, unsuccessfully contested the 2024 Lok Sabha polls from Amritsar connected a SAD ticket.
He was besides a two-time BJP MLA from Amritsar North betwixt 2007 and 2017.
Joshi joined the SAD aft the BJP expelled him for criticising the enactment for “mishandling” the farmers’ agitation successful 2021.
He served arsenic the section bodies and aesculapian acquisition and probe curate successful the SAD-BJP authorities from 2012 to 2017. PTI
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