Patna,(BiharTimes):: BJP got a boost ahead of Bihar elections on Saturday when a former minister along with other rebel JD(U) leader and one RJD MLA joining the party.

Renu Kushwaha and JD(U) MLA Sunil Kumar left the party to join BJP. Braj Kishore Singh of RJD too joined BJP. Kushwaha has served as minister in the earlier government of Nitish Kumar. She had quit the government ahead of general election as her husband had unsuccessfully contested Lok Sabha election from Madhepura from BJP.

Sunil Kumar is MLA from Biharsharif in Nalanda which is home district of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.