Chandigarh: Professional wrestler Dalip Singh Rana aka The Great Khali joined the Bharatiya Janata Party today. Days ahead of Punjab Assembly Polls, this inclusion took place.
Expressing his happiness amid joining BJP, he said, “I’m glad to have joined BJP. I feel that PM Modi’s work for the nation makes him the right Prime Minister. So, I thought why not be a part of his governance for the nation’s development.”
He further states that the reason to join BJP was that he was influenced by the party’s national policy.
Punjab will go to the polls on February 20 and the counting of votes will take place on March 10.
In 2020, Khali had lent support to the farmers protesting in Delhi borders against the Centre’s farm laws. The wrestler had appealed to people of India to support the agitating farmers.
“They will buy it (crop) for ₹ and sell it for Rs200. The laws will also harm daily wage workers, roadside vendors; the common man will suffer,” he had said.
Khali had made his professional wrestling debut in 2000. Before kickstarting his WWE career, he was an officer for the Punjab Police.
During his WWE career, Khali also went on to become the WWE Champion.
As an independent media platform, we do not take advertisements from governments and corporate houses. It is you, our readers, who have supported us on our journey to do honest and unbiased journalism. Please contribute, so that we can continue to do the same in future.
