Karnal, Feb. 19 -- In a major boost to BJP in Karnal ahead of municipality elections, several senior leaders from Congress and other parties including district Congress coordinator Tarlochan Singh on Tuesday, along with 30 others, joined BJP in the presence of chief minister Nayab Saini.

Singh, a former chairman of Haryana Minority Commission, had contested against the previous chief minister and now Union minister Manohar Lal Khattar in 2019 and again contested in 2024 by-election against sitting chief minister Saini from Karnal assembly seat.

The mass joining took place at district BJP office Karan Kamal, where state BJP president Mohan Lal Badoli, local MLA Jagmohan Anand, district working president Brij Bhushan Gupta and BJP mayor c...