Is BJP rewarding Samajwadi defector Naresh Agrawal for his cloaked loyalty?

He has been known on several issues to take the sting out the Opposition's attack on the govt even while he was an SP member

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters on the social media were left nonplussed when the party inducted Samajwadi Party leader Naresh Agrawal into its fold on Monday afternoon.

While External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj publicly disapproved Agarwal’s remarks on SP Rajya Sabha member Jaya Bachchan, several other BJP leaders said they were intrigued at their top leadership’s decision.

Agrawal has mocked Hindu gods in the recent past, and has also called Kulbhushan Jadhav, currently in Pakistani custody on charges of spying, a terrorist.

In 2004, D P Yadav had joined the BJP, but had to quit within days because of protests from within. Bihar