Former UP Congress leader joins BJP

Sachdeva said he had come across the social worker during the party’s ongoing outreach programme revolving around the achievements of the Narendra Modi government’s nine-year tenure.

“Her father was a senior officer of the Delhi government and, in his young age, got an opportunity to work with Baba Saheb Bhimrao Ambedkar from where his inspiration for service started. Harit got the same inspiration for social service from her father, which she will now take forward as a BJP member,” Sachdeva said.

Panda said the party had come across many “eminent persons” who wanted to join the BJP during its outreach programme and more were scheduled to join it over the coming days.

Harit expressed her gratitude to the top leadership of the party including Panda and Sachdeva after joining the BJP. She said that for the last several years through Bahujan Samyak Sangathan, “I am serving the society, working for the empowerment of Dalit women and now through BJP, I will work further with greater thrust”.

If any party has done something for every section of society, Harit said, it was the BJP, adding that she had joined the party bearing this in mind.