Lucknow, July 26: In a boost to the Congress ahead of by-polls to 13 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh, Jan Morcha, a political outfit founded by former Prime Minister Vishwanath Pratap Singh, today merged with the party.
The merger took place at a function here attended by AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh, UP Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi and other senior party leaders.
Ajeya Singh, the Jan Morcha president and son of late V P Singh, former UP minister Kailash Nath Singh, other party leaders and activists joined the Congress.
Welcoming them into the party fold, Joshi said their decision to join the Congress en masse would strengthen it in Uttar Pradesh.
Singh had merged his party with Ram Vilas Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party last year
—Agencies