DEHRADUN, March 13 -- The trend of leaders and workers from Congress and other parties joining the Bharatiya Janata Party has continued with a number of leaders from the Kumaon region joining the BJP here on Tuesday. Outgoing chairman of Shaktifarm Nagar Panchayat Ajay Jaiswal and Youth Congress State general secretary Ankita Pal among others, joined the BJP in the presence of the party's State president Mahendra Bhatt, cabinet minister Saurabh Bahuguna and other party leaders.

Speaking on the occasion, Bhatt said that the series of people joining the BJP for building a developed India is a guarantee of a government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the third consecutive term. "A large number of good people from various parties joinin...