Akhilesh Yadav's Close Aide Naresh Agrawal Joins BJP | Read

Rajya Sabha MP Naresh Agrawal, who lost out in the race for re-nomination to the upper house to Jaya Bachchan, today quit the Samajwadi Party and joined the BJP, which was left embarrassed after he remarked that the SP had equated him with the film actor "who used to dance in films". Mr Agrawal, who has courted controversies in the past too over his statements, made the remarks in the presence of BJP leaders, including Union minister Piyush Goyal, at a press conference held at the party headquarters here to announce his joining the BJP.