Former US ambassador Taranjit Singh Sandhu joins BJP
Taranjit Singh Sandhu—one of the most experienced Indian diplomats on US affairs—on Tuesday, March 19, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the national capital city, Delhi. The former ambassador joined the saffron party at its headquarters in New Delhi's Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg in the presence of party general secretaries Vinod Tawde and Tarun Chugh. The Saffron party may field Sandhu against Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal of the Aam Aadmi Party AAP from the Amritsar constituency in Punjab in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections 2024, newswire PTI reported.
Speaking about the growth of the India-US relationship and development as the focus area of the Modi government, Sandhu thanked the BJP president JP Nadda, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah who encouraged him for the “new path of service to the nation". "In the last 10 years, I have worked closely with PM Modi's leadership, especially in relationship with the United States and Sri Lanka... PM Modi is development focussed...
Development is very much needed today and... this development should reach Amritsar too. So, I thank the party president, the Prime Minister and the Home Minister who encouraged me for the new path of service to the nation that I am entering...," Sandhu said.
Sandhu served as Ambassador to the United States from February 2020 to January 2024. Before his assignment in Washington DC, Sandhu was High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka from January 2017 to January 2020. He had also served at the High Commission of India, Colombo earlier as the Head of the Political Wing from December 2000 to September 2004.
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