Tribune News Service
Rewari, September 29

Former Border Security Force constable Tej Bahadur Yadav joined Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) on Sunday, less than a month before Haryana holds assembly elections.

Yadav, who was dismissed from service in 2017 after he posted a video complaining about the food served to BSF troops, said he would contest from Karnal against Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar.

He had previously tried to contest Lok Sabha elections as a Samajwadi Party candidate from Varanasi against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Election Commission of India however rejected his nomination, prompting him to unsuccessfully challenge the decision in the Supreme Court. The Election Commission had attributed its decision to differing accounts of how he was dismissed from service in his nomination papers.