Anandpur Sahib, January 29
Senior BJP leader and former minister Madan Mohan Mittal is set to join the SAD as the SAD-BSP alliance has offered ticket to his elder son Arvind Mittal from Anandpur Sahib.
The BSP will drop Nitin Nanda, who was earlier announced as the party candidate from there.
Mittal has also been offered a senior position in SAD, and a formal announcement will be made on Saturday.
Mittal was upset after the BJP ignored his request to field his son from Anandpur Sahib.
Arvind, in order to pursue politics, had left the job of additional advocate general in 2015.
The BJP, ignoring the Mittals, preferred to field Parminder Sharma, a former district planning board president. Even Madan Mohan Mittal was denied ticket, though he is a sitting MLA.
Sharma lost to Congress candidate Rana KP Singh, still he was given the ticket by party for the second consecutive time.
According to sources, he had held a meeting with a senior SAD leader in Ropar on Thursday. The final decision was taken following a meeting between the Mittals and SAD-BSP leaders, including SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal at the latter’s residence in Chandigarh on Friday night.
BJP leader Madan Mohan Mittal to join SAD today
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