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Lok Sabha Poll: BSP, SP leaders join BJP

| @indiablooms | Apr 03, 2019, at 05:58 pm

Lucknow, Apr 3 (UNI) Uttar Pradesh BJP received a shot in the arm when several leaders and former legislators from different political parties joined the BJP in the presence of state party president Mahendra Nath Pandey here on Wednesday.

Prominent among those joined the BJP are two-time Congress MLA from Tiloi in Amethi Lok Sabha constituency and presently a BSP leader Dr Muslim and former BSP MP Suresh Pasi from Kaushambi.


Dr Pandey, welcoming the leaders in the party fold, announced that Congress too have admitted that they were preparing for 2022 assembly polls in the state," he said, adding that the Modi wave was sweeping across the country and there was no one to challenge it," he claimed.


Others who joined the BJP are BSP leader from Kannauj Nirmal Tiwari, BSP leader from Chitrakoot Jagdish Gautam, SP leader and former state minister Nityanand Sharma from Deoria, SP leader Kusum Singh and Ramesh Pandey and actor Mukesh Tyagi.  

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