BJP got a new strain with singer Anup Jalota joining the party. Jalota, who claimed to have been closely associated with the Jan Sangh ideology since childhood, was welcomed by party general secy Pramod Mahajan and Law Minister Arun Jaitley. ‘Sare jahaan se achcha, Hindustan hamara,’ he sang on his entry, saying he was impressed by the Vajpayee government’s performanceCongress’ prodigal-son Kumar Bangarappa returned on Friday, days after he left the party for the BJP. Quoting ‘sentimental’ reasons for his leaving the Congress, the son of former CM S. Bangarappa said: ‘I have suffered emotionally.The BJP is suffocating and it’s not a good place for the youth’
