Chandigarh, Dec 3;

National BJP general secretary Tarun Chugh welcomed former Punjab DGP SS Virk joining the BJP and said that the BJP had been always ready to honour police officers who have contributed their mite for maintaining law and order in Punjab.

In a statement, Chugh said while Congress today inducted Sidhu Moosewala, who is facing more than a dozen police cases, the BJP has got a respected police officer to its fold.

Chugh said maintaining law and order in the border state has been always a top priority of the BJP. Unlike the Congress leaders, who have close relations with the Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan and the ISI, the BJP has always kept the nation's interest uppermost in mind.

He said Punjab would soon see many such nationalists joining the party giving a big challenge to anti-national forces.