Jyotiraditya Scindia Joins BJP

Jyotiraditya Scindia, who resigned from Congress on Tuesday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party today. Scindia joined the BJP at an event in national capital Delhi in the presence of party chief JP Nadda.

Scindiahad ended his 18-year-old association with the Congress on Tuesday aftermeetings with Home Minister Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modiyesterday.

Scindia'sexit from the Congress was followed by resignation letters by about 22 MLAs whohad been sequestered in Karnataka. The resignation letters were, however, sentto the Governor and not the assembly speaker, and threatens to upend the KamalNath government which has a wafer-thin majority.

Inhis resignation letter to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi that Scindia put out onTwitter soon after, he alluded to his discomfort in the party over the lastyear or so. "…as you well know, this is a path that has been drawing itselfout over the last year," he had written in his letter.