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After leaving SAD Jagdeep Singh Cheema joins BJP, Nayab Saini, Bittu welcome him at Chandigarh
Harshabab Sidhu
Chandigarh, October 13, 2025:In a major political development, former 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 elections on a Shiromani Akali Dal ticket from Amloh in 2012 and Fatehgarh Sahib in 2022.