Indian cricketer Ravindra Jadeja has joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), his wife, Rivaba Jadeja, said in a post on Thursday.

In a post on X, Rivaba shared photos of Ravindra Jadeja's card as a BJP member, along with her own.

Rivaba Jadeja joined the BJP in 2019 and contested the Gujarat Assembly polls from the Jamnagar North constituency in 2022. Jadeja had also campaigned for his wife and she had won from the constituency by a margin of over 50,000 votes.

Jadeja announced retirement from T20 International Cricket on June 29, a day after India won the T20 World Cup 2024 tournament in Barbados.

Jadeja, 35, played 74 T20 matches for India. He took 54 wickets with his left-arm spin and scored 515 runs as a lower middle-order batsman since his debut in 2009.

Earlier this week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched the Bharatiya Janata Party's 2024 membership drive 'Sanghatan Parva, Sadasyata Abhiyan 2024' by renewing his membership and urged party workers to make special efforts to connect with the youth.

The BJP has set a target of enrolling 100 million members through the latest drive. Between 2014 and 2019, 180 million crore members enrolled in the party.

During the launch of the drive, PM Modi said that BJP's membership drive isn't just a ritual but expansion of the family and also an ideological movement.

He also said that the membership drive should begin from the weakest polling station, where the party got the least votes.