Indian all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja appears to embark on his political journey by joining Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP). His wife Rivaba Jadeja, who is a BJP MLA from Gujarat shared a post on social media informing about the same on Thursday (5 September). Jadeja retired from T20 internationals recently.
In a post on X on Thursday, Ms Jadeja shared photos of Ravindra Jadeja’s card as a BJP member, along with her own. The post mentioned the BJP’s ‘sadasyata abhiyan’, or membership drive, which began on September 2. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had also renewed his membership of the party under the drive the same day.
🪷 #SadasyataAbhiyaan2024 pic.twitter.com/he0QhsimNK
— Rivaba Ravindrasinh Jadeja (@Rivaba4BJP) September 2, 2024
Rivaba Jadeja joined the BJP in 2019 and contested the Gujarat Assembly polls from the Jamnagar North constituency in 2022. Ravindra Jadeja had also campaigned for his wife and she had won from the constituency by a margin of over 50,000 votes.
BJP National General Secretary Vinod Tawde said on Thursday that over 1 crore people had joined the party in three days since the membership drive began.
“There is tremendous enthusiasm among the countrymen and workers about this campaign. The number of members is certainly going to reach record levels in the coming days,” he posted in Hindi on X.
Party veterans Lal Krishna Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi also renewed their membership on Thursday.
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Source: NDTV
