Punjab BJP Leader Arvind Khanna Joins Shiromani Akali Dal

Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arvind Khanna on Sunday joined the Shiromani Akali Dal in the presence of party chief Sukhbir Singh Badal in Sangrur.

Arvind Khanna was the vice-president of the Punjab BJP.

Sukhbir Singh Badal on Sunday visited Arvind Khanna's house in Sangrur, where he inducted the former MLA into the SAD fold.

It is my pleasure to welcome senior BJP leader, two-time MLA and my friend Arvind Khanna into the Shiromani Akali Dal and appoint him as the Halka Incharge of the Sangrur Assembly constituency.

Mr. Khanna has been serving Sangrur for more than two decades and has been… pic.twitter.com/L5bfW2IXQq

— Sukhbir Singh Badal (@officeofssbadal) February 15, 2026

Arvind Khanna, a former Congress MLA and businessman, had joined the BJP in January 2022.

He had been elected an MLA from the Sangrur Assembly constituency in 2002 and the Dhuri seat in 2012 on a Congress ticket.

Khanna had 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.

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