Akali leader Anil Joshi met Rahul Gandhi in Delhi on Tuesday.
Anil Joshi, vice president and former minister of Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab, will join Congress. He will be joined by Bhupesh Baghel party in -charge of Punjab Congress in Chandigarh at 10 am tomorrow (October 1).
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Anil Joshi met Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and party general secretary KC Venugopal on Tuesday (September 30). With this, he was confirmed to join the Congress in a way.
Anil Joshi was in BJP before joining the Akali Dal. In 2021, he was expelled from BJP for making rhetoric in support of the peasant movement.
Anil Joshi is the big Hindu face of the Akali Dal in Punjab and in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections he was the Akali Dal candidate from Amritsar seat. Then he received about 2 million votes.
Anil Joshi, vice president of Akali Dal meeting Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal in Delhi.
Preparations were to contest by -elections for many days Anil Joshi is originally from Sangha village in Tarn Taran district in Punjab. His business is also in Tarn Taran. The Congress party can field him in the by -elections to be held in Tarn Taran assembly seat. It is being said that Joshi himself has been preparing to contest this by -election for the last several days.
There was also talk of giving ticket to Davinder Singh Sandhu Earlier it was being said that the Congress party could give tickets to Davinder Singh Sandhu (Lali Dhala) for Tarn Taran by -election. Lali Dhala was also called Chandigarh last week but his name was not announced. Lali Dhala is a big industrialist and has been doing social service in the area. He contested independent elections in 2012 and then got more than 18 thousand votes.
The Tarn Taran seat was declared vacant after the death of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Dr. Kashmir Singh Sohal on June 27. By -elections are to be held here soon.
MLA became MLA twice from BJP, he was minister Anil Joshi was in BJP before joining the Akali Dal. In the 2007 and 2012 Punjab assembly elections, he was elected MLA from Amritsar North seat on a BJP ticket. He was a cabinet minister in the Akali-BJP coalition government led by former CM late Prakash Singh Badal and took over the local body, medical education and research department. In the 2017 Punjab assembly elections, he lost the election in front of Congress candidate Sunil Datti in Amritsar North seat.
On Akali Dal ticket Fought election from Amritsar North, lost The Akali Dal also gave Anil Joshi a ticket from Amritsar North seat in the 2022 Punjab Assembly elections. He then lost by 28318 votes in front of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate and former Punjab Police IG Kunwar Vijay Pratap.
Akali joined the Dal in 2021 The BJP expelled Anil Joshi from the party after making a statement in support of the peasant movement. He then joined the Akali Dal in 2021. He had said that fighting for the rights of the public is his priority. The Akali family gives a strong platform for this. He will continue to serve every section of Amritsar and Punjab.
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