New Delhi, March 14 -- Tom Vadakkan, Congress spokesperson, once a key aide of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, on Thursday joined BJP and attacked his former party for its stand on Balakot air strikes.

Vadakkan joined the party in the presence of Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and met its president Amit Shah, saying, "I am deeply hurt and that is why I am here."

Asserting that the Congress questioned the integrity of armed forces, he said, "The attack by Pakistan on our land and the reaction from my party was sad indeed."

"I left the party with heavy heart. If a party is working against national interest, there is no other option but to leave it," he added.

Attacking party Chief Rahul Gandhi he said he gave the party two years of his ...