<span style="color: #222222;">Bhubaneshwar Kalita, former Congress chief whip in Rajya Sabha who resigned from the House earlier this week opposing the party's stand on the government's decisions on Jammu and Kashmir, today joined BJP. <br />'' <br />'' Mr Kalita, whose term in Rajya Sabha was till April 9th next year, is the second Congress Rajya Sabha member after Sanjay Sinh, a member of the erstwhile Amethi royal family, who has joined the BJP.</span>