Nagar, Sanjay Seth join BJP after quitting SP

New Delhi: Two former Samajwadi Party leaders, who had quit their party and Rajya Sabha memberships recently, joined the BJP on Saturday, lauding the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Surendra Singh Nagar, a two-time Member of Parliament, and Sanjay Seth, a well-known realtor of Uttar Pradesh who was the SP's treasurer, joined the BJP in the presence of its general secretary Bhupender Yadav and its media head Anil Baluni.

Both Nagar and Seth hailed

Modi's leadership and lauded his government's decision to scrap the

provisions of Article 370 to end Jammu and Kashmir's special status in the

Constitution.