India, July 12 -- Former Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MLA Pravat Ranjan Biswal on Sunday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), even as the criminal trial against him in the multi-crore Seashore chit fund scam remains pending.

Accompanied by over 10,000 supporters, Biswal was formally inducted into the BJP in the presence of Odisha BJP president Manmohan Samal, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi and other senior party leaders, following a grand procession from Master Canteen to the party's headquarters in Unit-III, Bhubaneswar.Odisha Weather Forecast

Orissa High Court recently ordered expedited trial in Seashore scam case His entry into the BJP comes just 10 days after the Orissa High Court refused to quash the criminal proceedings against h...