Former Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister Dara Singh Chauhan, who recently quit the state council of ministers, is likely to join the Samajwadi Party (SP) on January 16.

Chauhan, a resident of Azamgarh, is the sitting MLA from Madhuban Assembly seat in Mau district. Sources close to him told PTI that the ex-minister is likely to join the SP on January 16. Chauhan did not attend a Samajwadi Party event on Friday.