Former Indian batsman Gautam Gambhir joins Bharatiya Janata Party

22/03/2019 inquilabtimes

In the wake of reporting his retirement from all type of cricket in December 2018, former indian opener Gautam Gambhir is good to go to start another innings on India political turf. As detailed by the news office ANI, the ex-Indian cricketer Gautam Gambhir joins Bharatiya Janata Party BJP on Friday.

The 37-year-old is an occupant of Rajendra Nagar which goes under the New Delhi voting public. Prior it was found out from the sources that he was going to supplant Meenakshi Lekhi, who is the chosen part from that voting public, for the up and coming for the Lok Sabha races.

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Former Cricketer Gautam Gambhir likely to join Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) today pic.twitter.com/Xse25c6lvl

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Gambhir as of late got the Padma Shri Award from President Ram Nath Kovind at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. He was one of the eight sportspersons met with the fourth most noteworthy non military personnel grant.

The previous India opener had been vocal against Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, over and over pulling him up for arrangements or its absence. In any case, with regards to remaining behind the decision BJP, Gambhir has been one stage ahead, clarifying that his consideration in the gathering is just a short time.

As indicated by a review directed by ABP News, BJP is set to clear each of the seven bodies electorate in New Delhi, which means a triumph on presentation in governmental issues for Gambhir is pretty much certain.

Outstandingly, Gambhir had additionally crusaded for Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in 2014 Lok Sabha races, offering ascend to theories of him joining BJP. He, in any case, later on, proceeded to deny the reports.

Gautam Gambhir joins Bharatiya Janata Party ;

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The only Indian and one of four international cricketers to have scored five hundreds in five consecutive Test matches.
The only Indian batsman to have scored more than 300 runs in four consecutive Test series.
ICC Test player of the year 2009.
Played an integral part in India’s wins in the finals of both the 2007 World Twenty20 (75 from 54 balls) and the 2011 Cricket WorldCup(97 from 122 balls).

These lines describe him very well :-

He could be more aggressive than Virender Sehwag, played the kind of back-to-the-wall innings that would do Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman proud, and accumulated without taking any risks, much like Sachin Tendulkar has been doing in the last quarter of his career. (Source :Gautam Gambhir)

In the words of Virender Sehwag :-