Uttarakhand: Congress MLA Rajendra Singh Bhandari joins BJP

Uttarakhand MLA Rajendra Singh Bhandari switches from Congress to BJP before Lok Sabha elections, resigning from Congress. He joined the BJP in the presence of its senior leaders, including Union Minister Piyush Goyal and the party's national general secretary Dushyant Kumar Gautam. Bhandari represented the Badrinath seat in the Uttarakhand Assembly