Bengaluru: Seven weeks after quitting Congress, former Union Minister of External Affairs SM Krishna will join the BJP on Wednesday in Delhi.

Krishna would be inducted into the BJP in the presence of its national president Amit Shah and other leaders, including Ananth Kumar and R Ashok from Karnataka, the BJP sources said.

Krishna was scheduled to join the BJP on March 15, but had to postpone it due to the death of his sister.

Krishna (84) had announced his resignation from the Congress on January 29, saying the party was in a “state of confusion” on whether it needed mass leaders or not. Krishna, who was the Karnataka Chief Minister from 1999 to 2004, had returned to state politics after stepping down as then External Affairs Minister in 2012.

He has also served as the Governor of Maharashtra.