bjp: After resigning from NC, Devender Rana, Surjit Singh Slathia join BJP

A day after resigning from the Nationwide Convention, Devender Rana, the previous head of its Jammu division, together with one other get together chief Surjit Singh Slathia joined the BJP on Monday. Rana and Slathia joined the BJP at its headquarters right here within the presence of Union ministers Dharmendra Pradhan, Hardeep Singh Puri and Jitendra Singh.

Rana, who’s a former MLA and the youthful brother of Union minister Jitendra Singh, has additionally served as a political advisor to former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and Nationwide Convention (NC) chief Omar Abdullah.

BJP basic secretary in-charge for Jammu and Kashmir Tarun Chugh and its Jammu and Kashmir unit chief Ravinder Raina welcomed them within the get together.

Rana has been advocating for the Jammu declaration – a joint declaration of a number of political, social and enterprise organisations, primarily demanding restoration of statehood for the Jammu area and never for the entire Jammu and Kashmir.

In 2019, the Centre had revoked the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir’s particular standing and bifurcated it into union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.