Ex-Cong spokesperson Jaiveer Shergill appointed national spokesperson of BJP

BJP has appointed former Congress leader and spokesperson Jaiveer Shergill as its national spokesperson with immediate effect. Shergill had left Congress in August this year. In his resignation letter to senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, he had claimed the party "is influenced by the self-serving interests of individuals indulging in sycophancy and consistently ignoring ground reality".