New Delhi: RSS leader Ram Madhav today formally joined BJP in the presence of new party President Amit Shah.

Madhav, who was in charge of media and public relations in RSS, had been deputed to BJP by the Sangh. The RSS has also deputed its 'pracharak' Shiv Prakash to BJP. Prakash looked after affairs of RSS in western region of Uttar Pradesh, a state where BJP had put up a splendid show in the last Lok Sabha elections.