Two independent Madhesh provincial assembly members joined the Janata Samajbadi Party on Sunday.

According to Manish Suman, spokesperson of the party, Surita Sah and Pramod Kumar Jaiswal were inducted into the party by Chairman Upendra Yadav. Sah was elected to the provincial assembly from Mahottari-2(b) and Jaiswal from Parsa-3(a).

The party now has 18 members in the 107-member assembly.

The provincial assembly comprises 24 lawmakers from UML, 22 from Nepali Congress, 18 from Janata Samajbadi Party, 13 from Janamat Party, nine each from Loktantrik Samajbadi Party and Maoist Centre, seven from CPN (Unified Socialist), and one each from Nagarik Unmukti Party, Rastriya Prajatantra Party and Nepal Sanghiya Samajbadi Party and two independent members.