India, April 20 -- Nationalist Congress Party (SP) leader Prajakt Tanpure, nephew of senior party leader Jayant Patil, is expected to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) soon, in a significant political development ahead of the Rahuri Assembly bypoll. Tanpure has called a meeting of party workers and supporters on Monday, ahead of the formal announcement.

Sources said Tanpure may join the saffron party in the presence of chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, who is scheduled to address a campaign rally for the Rahuri bypoll on Monday.

Tanpure, a one-term MLA from Rahuri elected in 2019, belongs to a politically influential family in Ahilyanagar. The constituency was represented for years by his father Prasad Tanpure and grandfather Bapura...