'From Chamchagiri To Kartavya': Ex-Congress Leader Jaiveer Shergill After Joining BJP

Former Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh and former MP Sunil Jakhar have been appointed as members of the BJP's National Executive.

Jaiveer Shergill addresses a press conference in New Delhi.

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New Delhi: Soon after assuming the post of BJP's national spokesperson officially, former Congress spokesperson Jaiveer Shergill launched an attack on the grand old party for its extreme left ideology. Jaiveer decided to move from "Congress's negative politics of criticism to politics of positive development, politics of post to politics of serving the nation, from darkness to light, from chamchagiri to kartavya," reported news agency ANI.

Congress was the history of Punjab, AAP is present but BJP is the future of Punjab. So this decision was taken after thinking about the people of Punjab. Congress has taken extreme left ideology. The country is with BJP and moving towards progress: Jaiveer Shergill on joining BJP pic.twitter.com/nm3EXm5lKc

— ANI (@ANI) December 2, 2022

"Congress was the history of Punjab, AAP is present but BJP is the future of Punjab. So this decision was taken after thinking about the people of Punjab. Congress has taken extreme left ideology. The country is with BJP and moving towards progress," said Jaiveer.

Former Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh and former MP Sunil Jakhar have been appointed as members of the BJP's National Executive. On the other hand, Rana Gurmeet Sodhi, Manoranjan Kalia and Amanjot Kaur Ramoowalia have been made special invitees to the National Executive. 

Shergill reacted on Twitter saying, "I express my heartfelt gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP national president JP Nadda and Home Minister Amit Shah for appointing me as the national spokesperson of the world's largest party."

मैं देश के यशस्वी प्रधानमंत्री श्री @narendramodi जी, भाजपा @BJP4India के राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष श्री @JPNadda जी एवं गृह मंत्री श्री @AmitShah जी का मुझे विश्व की सबसे बड़ी पार्टी का राष्ट्रीय प्रवक्ता नियुक्त करने पर हार्दिक आभार व्यक्त करता हूँ | 🙏 pic.twitter.com/CLqJPy0W2a

— Jaiveer Shergill (@JaiveerShergill) December 2, 2022

The 39-year-old Jaiveer is a lawyer by profession in the Supreme Court of India and as a spokesperson of the Congress, he has been presenting the party's side in debates on TV channels. He has been one of the youngest spokespersons of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee and has the youngest person to be appointed as the Co-Chairman of the Congress Legal Cell for Punjab. He has also served as the Young India Representative for the International Bar Association for a period of two years 2008-09.