Guwahati: Former Congress spokesperson Jaiveer Shergill has been appointed as the national spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday.
On the other hand, former MP Sunil Jakhar and former chief minister of Punjab Captain Amarinder Singh have been chosen to serve on the National Executive.
The party also included UP Minister Swatantra Dev Singh, former Uttarakhand BJP chief Madan Kaushik, former Congress leader Rana Gurmeet Singh Sodhi, and former Punjab minister Manoranjan Kalia in the grouping.
Additionally, the BJP named Madan Kaushik of Uttarakhand, Vishnudev Sai of Chhattisgarh, and three leaders from Punjab, namely S Rana Gurmeet Singh Sodhi, Manoranjan Kaliya, and Amanjot Kaur Ramuwaliya, as special invitees to its National Executive.
Jaiveer Shergill wrote a letter to Congress leader Sonia Gandhi in which he not only outlined the justifications for his decision but also made digs at the top of the party.
He slammed the Gandhis, saying the “vision of the party’s decision-makers is no longer in sync” with the aspirations of the youth and that sycophancy was “eating the Congress like ‘termites'”.
The 39-year-old lawyer was one of Congress’s most prominent and youngest spokespeople.