Kailash Gahlot joins BJP day after resigning from AAP

A day after resigning from the Aam Aadmi Party, former Delhi minister Kailash Gahlot joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday.

Gahlot joined the party in the presence of Union minister Manohar Lal Khattar, BJP national general secretary Dushyant Gautam and the party’s Delhi unit chief Virendra Sachdeva.

In his resignation letter to Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday, Gahlot had said: “Political ambitions have overtaken our commitment towards people, leaving many promises unfulfilled.”

He also criticised the Aam Aadmi Party’s focus on political conflicts, particularly with the central government, stating it has “severely crippled” its ability to serve Delhi residents effectively.

After being inducted into the BJP, Gahlot said: “I had left my practice as an advocate and joined the Aam Aadmi Party. Several persons like me had joined the party as they had hopes with its ideology.”

“The hope was to serve the residents of Delhi,” he added. “But those values have been lost. If the state government invests its whole time in fighting with the Union government, then there can be no development in Delhi.”

Gahlot has at various times held the home, transport, information technology, and women and child development portfolios in the Delhi government. He is the MLA from Najafgarh.

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