{"id":8060,"date":"2026-04-24T18:52:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/harbhajan-singh-former-india-cricketer-harbhajan-singh-joins-bjp-quits-aam-aadmi-party-cricket-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T18:52:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:22:03","slug":"harbhajan-singh-former-india-cricketer-harbhajan-singh-joins-bjp-quits-aam-aadmi-party-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/harbhajan-singh-former-india-cricketer-harbhajan-singh-joins-bjp-quits-aam-aadmi-party-cricket-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Harbhajan Singh: Former India cricketer Harbhajan Singh joins BJP, quits Aam Aadmi Party | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<div class=\"aHAWH\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130493143,imgsize-22338,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/130493143.jpg\" title=\"Meet The 7 AAP MPs Who Resigned And Joined BJP In Big Political Shock To Kejriwal\" imgsize=\"\" resizemode=\"4\" offsetvertical=\"0\" placeholdersrc=\"\" placeholdermsid=\"47529300\" msid=\"\" type=\"thumb\" alt=\"Meet The 7 AAP MPs Who Resigned And Joined BJP In Big Political Shock To Kejriwal\" class=\"undefined\"\/><\/div>\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined   YjeWt\" style=\"top:0px\">\n<p><span title=\"Harbhajan Singh (Image credit: X) \">Harbhajan Singh (Image credit: X) <\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: In a major development, former India spinner <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/harbhajan-singh\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Harbhajan Singh<\/a> joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday, ending his stint with the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/aam-aadmi-party\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Aam Aadmi Party<\/a> (AAP).<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>Harbhajan, a member of India\u2019s World Cup-winning squads in the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 and the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup, was nominated to the Rajya Sabha by AAP in 2022 as one of its five candidates from Punjab.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"wLCOS vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"ap_Bf\">\n<div class=\"ZM4zO\">\n<p><i class=\"bo2C4\"\/> <span>Watch<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <!-- -->Meet The 7 AAP MPs Who Resigned And Joined BJP In Big Political Shock To Kejriwal<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>He is among several AAP MPs to switch to the BJP, alongside Raghav Chadha.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>Harbhajan, who played 103 Tests, 236 ODIs and 28 T20Is for India between 1998 and 2016, had entered politics by joining AAP. The Arvind Kejriwal-led party nominated him to the Rajya Sabha in 2022.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>After nearly a four-year stint with AAP, Harbhajan\u2019s move to the BJP marks a significant shift in his political journey.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/news\/former-india-cricketer-harbhajan-singh-joins-bjp-quits-aam-aadmi-party\/articleshow\/130493145.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harbhajan Singh (Image credit: X) NEW DELHI: In a major development, former India spinner Harbhajan Singh joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday, ending his stint with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).Harbhajan, a member of India\u2019s World Cup-winning squads in the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 and the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup, was nominated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}