Former Samajwadi Party spokesperson and president of its legal wing Gaurav Bhatia today joined the BJP.

The development came at a time when the party, which he defended for year in numerous television debates, finds itself at its lowest political ebb and the party that he has joined has been the wrecker-in-chief.

Bhatia had quit the Samajwadi Party on February 5 just ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election. Speculation was going on for nearly two months that Gaurav may join the BJP.

In a Ffacebook post, Gaurav Bhatia had announced quitting the Samajwadi Party. He had accused the party of deviating from the principles of socialism, which it espoused.

"Despite having devoted over one and a half decades, it is hard for me to continue serving the party when it is compromising the very principles of democracy, secularism and socialism that I have always believed in," Gaurav wrote.

Gaurav Bhatia had further said, "I have decided to resign from the post of National President - Legal Wing of the Samajwadi Party and all other posts related to the Samajwadi Party."

"This decision is firmly entrenched in my principles of democracy and socialism," Gaurav Bhatia had said.

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