UP BJP leader joins SP

Lucknow, Jan 9 (UNI) Former Rae Bareli Muncipality Chairman and BJP leader Manoj Pandey today joined the ruling Samajwadi Party along with his of supporters.

Admitting the BJP leader in the party fold, SP general secretary and state PWD minister Shivpal Singh Yadav said the joining of the leader would certainly strengthen the party in the region.

Rae Bareli is the parliamentary constitutuency of Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

Mr Pandey said thousands of people from the Brahmin samaj were joining the SP. Others who joined the party were office-bearers of the Brahmin samaj in UP.

UNI