NEW DELHI: A.P. Abdullakutty will join BJP on Tuesday. He will take the membership at the party’s parliamentary party office. Abdullakutty, who is Delhi, had met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He said that the PM asked him to join the saffron party.

Abdullakutty said that the prime minister also congratulated him for taking part in a yoga session on International yoga day. Abdullakutty also met BJP president and minister Amit Shah. BJP state president P.S. Sreedharan had also said that he will welcome Abdullakutty to the party.

CPM activist-turned Congress leader A P Abdullakutty had earned the wrath of CPM and Congress for praising the development model of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Meanwhile, the party circles clarified that once Abdullakutty reached the party, it will be at his discretion to decide whether he should work in Karnataka or Kerala.