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Dinesh Mongia
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Former Indian cricketer Dinesh Mongia joins BJP

| @indiablooms | Dec 28, 2021, at 09:45 pm

Amritsar: Former Indian cricketer Dinesh Mongia on Tuesday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.

BJP leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga welcomed Mongia to the party and tweeted: " Welcome Dinesh Mongia to BJP Family."

Mongia joined the party ahead of the Punjab Assembly polls.

Mongia earlier represented India in the 2003 World Cup.

“I want to serve the people of Punjab by joining the Bharatiya Janata Party. Today, there is no other party that can work better than the BJP for the development of the country," Mongia said after joining it.

He was welcomed in BJP by Water Resource Minister and Punjab in-charge of the party Gajendra Singh Shekhawat.

Mongia, 44, who hails from Punjab, was the first Indian cricketer to play a T20 match for Lancashire in 2004.

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