Setback to SAD; Jagdeep Singh Cheema joins BJP

Harshabab Sidhu

Chandigarh, October 13, 2025:In a major political development, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Jagdeep Singh Cheema, the party’s General Secretary, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday.

Cheema formally joined the BJP at the Punjab BJP headquarters in Sector 37, Chandigarh, in the presence of Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Saini and Union Minister Ravneet Singh Bittu. The induction ceremony was held under the leadership of BJP Punjab Working State President Ashwani Sharma.

Son of late Sardar Randhir Singh Cheema — a three-time Punjab Cabinet Minister and long-time SGPC member — Jagdeep Singh Cheema has been a prominent Akali leader from the Fatehgarh Sahib region.

He previously contested Punjab Assembly election

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