Lucknow, March 19 -- Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Dalit MP Sangeeta Azad, who represents the Lalganj seat in East UP, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Delhi on Monday evening.

Her joining came on a day when top ruling party leaders, including chief minister Yogi Adityanath, deputy CMs Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak and state party chief Bhupendra Chaudhary, were in the national capital for a core group meeting of the party's state leaders before the party's election committee, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, cleared the names for the second list of UP candidates for 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

Lalganj was among 16 Lok Sabha seats that the BJP had lost in U.P. in 2019. Azad's joining ahead of the declaration of the par...