Kailash Gahlot joins BJP, a day after quitting Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP

Kailash Gahlot, erstwhile Delhi curate and elder Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) connected Monday, a time aft quitting Arvind Kejriwal-led party.

Gahlot joined the BJP astatine enactment office successful beingness of elder BJP leaders including Manohar Lal Khattar, Jay Panda, Anil Baluni, Delhi BJP main Virendra Sachdeva and more.

Gahlot, AAP's Jat look successful the superior and MLA from Najafgarh constituency twice, was curate successful AAP authorities since 2017and held complaint of cardinal portfolios including home, transport, IT and women and kid development.

In his resignation missive addressed to AAP convenor Arvind, Gahlot cited unfulfilled promises and caller controversies arsenic the reasons down the move. His resignation from the Council of Ministers was besides accepted by CM Atishi with contiguous effect.

Gahlot, successful his resignation letter, claimed the enactment had drifted from its halfway values."Today, AAP faces sedate challenges... to the values that brought america together,” helium wrote.

In his resignation letter, the 50-year-old person pointed to "grave challenges" wrong AAP and besides lamented that the 'values which brought them unneurotic was getting mislaid successful politics'."Political ambitions person overtaken our committedness towards people, leaving galore promises unfulfilled.

Take for illustration the Yamuna, which we had promised to alteration into a cleanable river, but ne'er got astir to doing it. Now the Yamuna River is possibly adjacent much polluted than ever before," helium wrote.

In the letter, helium besides addressed contention surrounding Arvind Kejriwal's bungalow, which his rivals termed it 'Sheeshmahal'.Gahlot said, “There are respective embarrassing and bizarre issues similar Sheeshmahal, which person present led radical to question whether we inactive judge successful being the enactment of the communal man.”

He further stated that the continuous tussle betwixt the Delhi authorities and the Centre has hindered the city's progress.“It is present wide that if the Delhi authorities spends astir of its clip warring with the Centre, existent advancement for Delhi is not possible,” Gahlot added.

Gahlot's resignation from AAP came arsenic a large stroke for the AAP, peculiarly successful airy of Assembly elections, scheduled successful February adjacent year.