Lucknow, April 8 -- The Samajwadi Party on Monday brought former Uttar Pradesh minister Daddu Prasad, one of the closest aides of Bahujan Samaj Party founder the late Kanshi Ram into the SP fold, in a move that is perceived to strengthen the party's PDA (Pichda, Dalit and Alpsankhyak) push almost a year before panchayat elections and two years before the state assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh.

Prasad, a former three-time MLA from Manikpur Sarhat assembly seat and former minister in the BSP government, is known for having played a key role in the first-ever meeting between SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav and Kanshi Ram in New Delhi in 1993.

Speaking to the media after joining the SP in Lucknow on Monday, Daddu Prasad said, "All those who w...