Ahead of the panchayat polls, dozens of Congress activists, as the Haldwani BJP unit claimed, joined the BJP here on Sunday.
The Congress party workers led by Ghanshyam Singh and Neeru Devi, joined the BJP in the presence of senior BJP leader and MlA from Kaladhungi assembly constituency, Banshidhar Bhagat and BJP's Haldwani unit chief Deepak Mehara here on Sunday.
Welcoming the Congress party works to the party fold, senior BJP leader Bhagat called upon the newly joined party members to work for the party sincerely.
At the same time he also appealed to the party workers to do hard work for party's victory in the upcoming panchayat polls. In the meantime, Haldwani unit chief of the BJP, Deepak Mehara, also exhorted the party workers to up a united face to ensure party's victory in the panchayat elections ahead.
“The BJP would definitely win the panchayat polls with the help of the party workers. Therefore, I appeal to the party activists to work sincerely for the party in the upcoming panchayat polls,” Mehara added. Among others party leaders Dinesh Khulbe, Naveen Pant, C S Joshi, Anand Darmwal, Ajay Tripathi, Raju Negi, Jiwanti Rawat to name a few were also present on this occasion.