Chandigarh, Aug. 8 -- Several leaders and functionaries from the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday in the presence of Punjab BJP president Kewal Singh Dhillon.

Among those who joined the BJP was Rajinder Singh Marwaha, senior vice-president of the SAD's Trade & Industry Wing, president of the Trade & Industry Association Border Zone and a member of the Chief Khalsa Diwan Charitable Society.

From the Dera Baba Nanak assembly constituency, Congress leader Jasdeep Singh Randhawa, vice-chairman of MARKFED Punjab, also joined the BJP. Parwinder Ghania, AAP halqa coordinator and president of the arhtiya union, Gurdaspur, was among the other prominent inductees.

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