Have been offered ministerial berth as Punjab's progress is NDA govt's 'priority': Ravneet Bittu
BJP leader Ravneet Singh Bittu on Sunday said Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi has picked him to induct him into his council of ministers despite his defeat from Ludhiana in the Lok Sabha polls as Punjab's progress is the «priority» of the BJP-led NDA government. Bittu, a three-term former Congress MP from Punjab, had joined the BJP ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. He contested on the BJP ticket seeking his re-election from the Ludhiana Lok Sabha seat but lost to Congress' Amrinder Singh Raja Warring.
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Speaking to PTI, the BJP leader said that he had quit the Congress because he wanted Punjab to get representation in the Union government.
«I didn't want to sit in the opposition benches for the fourth time,» Bittu said.
«The BJP fulfilled my dream and said Punjab is on the priority whether we win (in election) or not, and gave me a ministerial berth even though I was not elected. Its because Punjab is on the NDA government's priority,» he told PTI.
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