Two Sitting Cong MLAs in Himachal, Including State Working President, Join BJP

On the same day as them joining the BJP, news came in of the Congress expelling both of them from party membership.

Two Himachal Pradesh Congress MLAs, Pawan Kajal and Lakhvinder Rana, joined the BJP in the presence of Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur.

Congress' Kangra MLA Kajal and Nalagarh representative Rana, who is also the party's state working president, joined the BJP just months before the assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh.

On the same day as them joining the BJP, news came in of the Congress expelling the two of them from the party membership for six years for "anti-party" activities.