Thirty-six candidates who had recently been elected as members of Block Development Committee in Bhadar block of Amethi district today joined the Samajwadi Party in the presence of local MLA and Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister Gayatri Prasad Prajapati.
Among the BDC members who joined the SP was Krishna Kumar Jaiswal, an aspirant for the post of block pramukh who is said to have been an active member of the Congress earlier.
Jaiswal was earlier a member of the district development committee of CSM Nagar district (now Amethi) and was nominated then as its president for three months.
