Former AAP leader Umesh Verma joins BJP

Former chief of AAP’s JJ Cell Umesh Verma on Wednesday joined the BJP along with his supporters, in a boost to the saffron party’s focus on unauthorised colonies and slums in the city under the leadership of its Delhi unit chief Manoj Tiwari. Tiwari, who celebrated his birthday on Wednesday, welcomed Verma and his supporters who took the primary membership of the BJP and vowed to work for the party in April’s municipal polls.