
Samajwadi Party leader Shatarudra Prakash joins BJP
The Hindu
Mr. Prakash had praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the inauguration of the Kashi Vishwanath Corridor
In a setback to the Samajwadi Party (SP), its MLC and former Uttar Pradesh minister Shatarudra Prakash joined the BJP at the saffron party's state headquarters here on December 31.
A socialist since his student days, Mr. Prakash joined the BJP in the presence of the party's state unit chief Swatantra Dev Singh.
Mr. Prakash, who joined politics while studying in the Banaras Hindu University (BHU), was elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly for the first time in 1974 from Varanasi Cantonment as a Socialist Party nominee. Three years later, he was again elected from the same constituency as a Janata Party candidate.

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