Archive · 29 Jan 2026
Haryana BJP Forms Screening Panels to Vet New Entrants
The Haryana BJP has created special committees to check new members joining the party.
This is to make sure the party stays true to its beliefs and doesn't become like the Congress party.
The committees will look at why people want to join and make sure they are good for the party.
Some people from the Congress and other parties have recently joined the BJP, but the BJP has also lost some members to the Congress.
The Congress party doesn't think this new rule is important.
The BJP recently won the state elections but the Congress got almost the same number of votes.
Haryana BJP forms state and district-level screening committees to vet new entrants.
Committees aim to preserve BJP's ideological character and prevent 'Congressisation'.
Recent high-profile defectors to BJP include Ishwar Singh and Sardar Trilochan Singh.
Congress dismisses the move as 'inconsequential' and questions its necessity.
BJP won the 2024 Assembly elections with 48 seats, while Congress won 37 seats.
- Who
- Haryana BJP, Congress, INLD, JJP, Haryana Vikas Party
- What
- Formation of screening committees to vet new entrants
- When
- Announced on Tuesday, following PM Modi's caution about 'ills of the Congress'
- Where
- Haryana, India
- Why
- To preserve BJP's ideological character and prevent 'Congressisation'
- State-Level Committee Members
- Sudha Yadav, Krishan Bedi, Kanwar Pal Gurjar, Subhash Sudha
- District-Level Committee Members
- District party president, district in-charge, and 1-2 other members
- Recent High-Profile Defectors to BJP
- Ishwar Singh, Sardar Trilochan Singh
- Recent High-Profile Exits from BJP
- Birender Singh, Brijendra Singh, Ashok Tanwar, Karan Dev Kamboj
- 2024 Assembly Election Results
- BJP: 48 seats (39.94% vote share), Congress: 37 seats (39.09% vote share)
- Primary Concern of BJP
- Preserving ideological character and preventing 'Congressisation'
- Congress Response
- Dismissed the move as 'inconsequential'