Former Indian cricketer Gautam Gambhir is set to join the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday with weeks to go for the Lok Sabha elections, Cricket Age reliably learns. He is likely to contest elections from one of the seven Delhi Lok Sabha seats.
With his reach of nearly nine million followers, the 37-year-old cricketer has been frequently commenting on social and security issues leading to speculation that he was planning to join politics.
The former opening batsman was conferred with India’s fourth highest civilian honour, the Padma Shri award, earlier this year and received a congratulatory letter from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
A resident of Rajendra Nagar in Delhi, Gambhir made his one-day international debut for the Indian national team in April 2003 against Bangladesh and went on to play 147 ODIs for the side.
The seven phase Lok Sabha election to be held in April and May.
