Cong’s Sham Lal joins BJP, likely to get key position in party

Jammu: With Lok Sabha elections just days away, the former Congress leader, Sham Lal Sharma on Saturday joined BJP in presence of BJP National Vice-President & J&K incharge Avinash Rai Khanna, State President Ravinder Raina and other senior leaders.
Sources in BJP said that, Sham Lal Sharma will be elevated to an important position in the Bharatiya Janta Party in the coming days and it will be announced by the Bhartiya Janta Party national president Amit Shah in his rally on Sunderbani on April 3.
They also said that Congress too had offered Sham Lal post of working president, but he denied keeping in view the sinking ship of Congress. Definitely Sharma’s joining BJP will make the party stronger in Jammu Division, Avinash said. Sharma is also brother of two-time Congress MP Madan Lal Sharma.
Earlier, Sharma resigned from the post of Vice President of Congress last year charged the leadership with ignoring the core issues of Jammu and failed to strike a balance between all three regions of the state, including Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. Two times MLA, Sharma lost to BJP’s Rajiv Sharma in Akhnoor assembly seat by a margin of 9,380 votes in the last assembly elections.