Mayawati received a shot in the arm when senior Samajwadi Party and Mulayam Singh’s confidant Ambika Chaudhary joined the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) at the conclusion of a Press conference in lucknow on Saturday. Welcoming Chaudhary in the BSP, Mayawati said that the senior leader would be given more respect and power in the party than he was given in the SP. She also announced that the former SP MlC would be fielded from Chaudhary’s traditional Fefna Assembly seat of Ballia. In the 2012 Assembly elections, Chaudhary lost from Fefna seat to a BJP nominee. Despite the loss Mulayam esnured that he was made an MlC and a minister in the Akhilesh Yadav cabinet. But during the intra-party feud which enveloped the SP, Chaudhary was sacked from the ministry even as he stayed by the side of Mulayam Singh and Shivpal Yadav. Soon after joining the BSP, Ambika Chaudhary said, “I am thankful to Behenji and have resigned from the primary membership of Samajwadi Party. I have joined the BSP to fight against the communal forces.” On being asked whether other SP leaders will follow suit, Chaudhary said, “Don’t know what other leaders will do and will let you media persons to make a guess”. Chaudhary said that the situation turned ugly in the SP from September 13 and the political condition was very fluid now.