Summary:
Lucknow, Dec 8 (PTI) The SP-RLD alliance got a shot in the arm ahead of the elections with Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati"s nephew Prabuddh Kumar merging his political party with the Rashtriya Lok Dal.
Prabuddh Kumar (39), who headed the Bharatiya Bahujan Parivartan Party, said his mother (Saraswati Devi) is an elder sister of Mayawati.
The party announced the merger at its rally in Meerut on Tuesday.
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav was also present at the rally.
Prabuddh told PTI the party had been registered in 2016 and in 2017 UP Assembly elections had contested on nearly 40 seats, mostly from western UP, and had also fielded a candidate from Azamgarh.
He said since he had worked in BAMCEF (The All India Backward and Minority Communities Employees Federation), his party had decided to support the BSP in the 2021 UP panchayat polls.