Jyotiraditya Scindia formally joins BJP

Jyotiraditya Scindia, who quit the Congress party in a dramatic turn of events, has finally joined the BJP in the presence of party president JP Nadda. Jyotiraditya Scindia delayed the joining for a few hours on Wednesday a day after he sent shockwaves in the political circles by resigning from the Congress party of which he was a member for over 18 years. On Tuesday, Scindia met Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi and tendered his resignation from Congress membership to Sonia Gandhi.