The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Haryana suffered a blow a few weeks before the Lok Sabha polls when Hisar MP Brijendra Singh tendered his resignation on social media on Sunday. In the presence of Mallikarjun Kharge, the president of the party, Singh joined the Congress later that day.
VIDEO | Lok Sabha elections 2024: Hisar MP Brijendra Singh joins Congress in presence of party president Mallikarjun Kharge in Delhi.
Singh had resigned from BJP earlier today "due to compelling political reasons." pic.twitter.com/kclaFNGgRY
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) March 10, 2024
In a post on X, Brijendra Singh wrote, “I have resigned from the primary membership of the BJP due to compelling political reasons. I extend my gratitude to the party, National President Sh. JP Nadda, Prime Minister Sh. Narendra Modi, & Sh. Amit Shah for giving me the opportunity to serve as the Member of Parliament for Hisar.”
I have resigned from the primary membership of BJP,due to compelling political reasons.
I extend gratitude to the party, National President Sh. JP 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 (@BrijendraSpeaks) March 10, 2024
His resignation comes amidst speculations of him, along with his father Birender Singh, joining the Congress party before the Lok Sabha elections.
Soon after resigning from the primary membership of the BJP, Brijendra Singh spotted outside the residence of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge.
According to reports, another BJP MP from Rajasthan’s Churu, Rahul Kaswan, may join Congress ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. It is said that he is upset with the party for being denied a ticket this year. Kaswan held a meeting on Friday with his supporters to decide on the future course of action.
Brijendra Singh, born on May 13, 1972, is an Indian politician and serves as the Member of Parliament for the Hisar parliamentary constituency. Hailing from the Jat community, he is the son of former Union Steel Minister Birender Singh. His mother, Premlata Singh, previously represented the Uchana Kalan constituency in the Haryana Legislative Assembly, a seat formerly held by his father.
As a member of Parliament, Singh actively participates in a number of committees, such as the Committee on Petitions, the Public Accounts Committee, the Standing Committee on Defence, and the Joint Committee on the Biological Diversity (Amendment) Bill, 2021.
Singh worked for 21 years as a bureaucrat in the Indian Administrative Service before deciding to resign voluntarily before entering politics. In the 1998 batch of the Civil Services Examination, he achieved All India Rank 9.
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