“Feeling sidelined” throughout the Congress, the occasion’s former Chandigarh unit president Subhash Chawla is all set to affix the BJP, sources mentioned on Wednesday, including that the saffron occasion would announce his becoming a member of at 1 pm.
Typically termed as a “soft-spoken and humble politician”, Chawla served because the mayor of Chandigarh twice.
A supply mentioned, “Chawla was feeling sidelined throughout the occasion. And thus this determination.”
Sources mentioned that Chawla had tried to affix the Chandigarh Congress president within the occasion’s Lok Sabha election marketing campaign however was not invited to many occasions.
“He was feeling humiliated as regardless of being a hardcore Congress employee, he was not being given the respect he deserved,” a supply mentioned.
In 2022, Chawla resigned as president of the Congress’s Chandigarh unit, a submit he had held since his appointment in February 2021, forward of the civic polls.
With Chawla, scores of his supporters are additionally more likely to be part of the BJP. Folks would usually seek the advice of Chawla for clarifications about bylaws of the civic physique.