Punjab BSP loses top leaders to BJP

BSP's state unit vice president DP Khosla and general secretary Gurdyal Chand joined BJP, strengthening it in Doaba region.

Two office bearers of the BSP's Punjab unit on Friday resigned from the party and joined the BJP.

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State vice president DP Khosla and state general secretary Gurdyal Chand joined the BJP in the presence of Rajinder Bhandari, the state general secretary of the BJP.

"With the joining of two BSP leaders, BJP has emerged more stronger in the Doaba region of the state," Bhandari told reporters in Jalandhar.

Attacking the Congress, Bhandari said, "The way the Congress has denied tickets to its three sitting MPs and shifted the constituency of one candidate, it seems it has already accepted defeat."