Lok Sabha Elections: Padma Awardee Damayanti Beshra, Ex-BJD Leader Sidhant Mohapatra Join BJP

Padma awardee Damayanti Beshra and former BJD leader Sidhant Mohapatra joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in the national capital.

Padma awardee Damayanti Beshra and former BJD leader Sidhant Mohapatra joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in the national capital.

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Lok Sabha Elections: Padma awardee Damayanti Beshra and former BJD leader Sidhant Mohapatra joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in Delhi on Thursday. 

#WATCH | Padma awardee Dr Damayanti Beshra and former BJD leader Sidhant Mohapatra join Bharatiya Janata Party in Delhi pic.twitter.com/zSR0PIYUSR

— ANI (@ANI) March 28, 2024

After joining the saffron party, Padma awardee Dr Damayanti Beshra and former BJD leader Sidhant Mohapatra meet BJP national president JP Nadda in the national capital.

#WATCH | After joining the BJP, Padma awardee Dr Damayanti Beshra and former BJD leader Sidhant Mohapatra meet BJP national president JP Nadda in Delhi. pic.twitter.com/2mJUCGuLfn

— ANI (@ANI) March 28, 2024

On joining the BJP, Sidhant Mohapatra said, "Prime Minister Narendra Modi's double engine government has to be brought in Odisha ."

#WATCH Delhi: On joining BJP, Sidhant Mohapatra said, "Prime Minister Narendra Modi's double engine government has to be brought in Odisha ..." pic.twitter.com/CJBbUQRswD

— ANI (@ANI) March 28, 2024

This comes a day after Aam Aadmi Party MP from Punjab's Jalandhar Sushil Kumar Rinku and MLA in the state Sheetal Angural joined the saffron party. Rinku, the MP from Jalandhar in Punjab, and Angural, who was elected to the state Assembly from Jalandhar West, joined the saffron party in the presence of Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri and its national general secretary Vinod Tawde.

On Tuesday, Bhavna Pandey, who joined the BSP and was named candidate from Haridwar Lok Sabha seat, quit the party. Pandey said she will join the BJP on March 28. "I will campaign for BJP candidate Trivendra Singh Rawat," she told PTI.

Soon after Pandey quit the BSP, the Mayawati-led party declared Maulana Jameel Ahmed Kazmi, former party MLA in Uttar Pradesh, as its new candidate from Haridwar. The Lok Sabha elections will be conducted from April 19 to June 1, 2024. The polls are slated to be held in seven phases. The counting of the votes will be held on June 4.