Chandigarh, February 15 (PT) Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arvind Khanna joined the Shiromani Akali Dal in the presence of party chief Sukhbir Singh Badal in Sangrur on Sunday.
Khanna was the vice-president of the Punjab BJP.
Badal visited Khanna's house in Sangrur on Sunday, where he formally welcomed the former MLA into the SAD.
Khanna, a former Congress MLA and businessman, had joined the BJP in January 2022.
He had been elected as an MLA from the Sangrur Assembly constituency in 2002 and the Dhuri seat in 2012 on a Congress ticket.
Khanna unsuccessfully contested the 2022 Assembly election from the Sangrur seat and the 2024 Lok Sabha polls from the Sangrur parliamentary constituency on a BJP ticket.
