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Jolt To Mahagathbandhan As Nishad Party Joins NDA; Incumbent Gorakhpur MP Enters BJP As Part Of Alliance
Swarajya Staff
Apr 04, 2019, 01:26 PM | Updated 01:26 PM IST
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In a move that can strengthen its prospects of BJP led alliance ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Nishad party leader and Gorakhpur MP, Praveen Nishad has now joined the Amit Shah led party.
Praveen Kumar Nishad won the Gorakhpur seat, by-election with the margin of 21,961 vote as SP & Nishad Party joint candidate. He is the son of Sanjay Nishad, founder of Nishad Party. This seat was vacated by Yogi Adityanath after becoming the CM of Uttar Pradesh.
Delhi: Nishad Party leader and Gorakhpur (UP) MP Praveen Nishad joins Bharatiya Janata Party. Nishad Party to support BJP in Uttar Pradesh in upcoming Lok Sabha elections. pic.twitter.com/Aqk5X2ZeAu
— ANI (@ANI) April 4, 2019
With the alliance of SP and BSP pitted to a strong competition to BJP in the political hotbed of the country, Uttar Pradesh, the latter is doing all it can to garner enough support base to maintain the same assailable performance of 2014 elections, where it won a landslide 73 out of 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state.
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