In an unprecedented development, five legislators of Bahujan Samaj Party have withdrawn their support to the BSP’s official candidate, Ramji Gautam, for the Rajya Sabha biennial elections.
The five legislators informed the returning officers that their signatures as proposers for Gautam were forged.
And after that Immediately the five legislators Aslam Chaudhary, Aslam Raini, Muztaba Siddiqui, Hakam Lal Bind and Govind Jatav went straight to the Samajwadi Party office to meet Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav.
The dramatic development that rocked political equations on Wednesday not only to the incoming Rajya sabha election but also certain to bound cast its shadow on the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.
On Tuesday, an Independent candidate, Prakash Bajaj, supported by Samajwadi Party, had filed his nomination papers, giving a clear indication of the events of Wednesday.
With this 5 BSP MLAs switches camp SP supported Independent candidate, Prakash Bajaj bound to wrest seat say Political onlookers .
BSP MLA Uma Shankar Singh has alleged that the five legislators who had rebelled against the party were being given ‘benefits’ of a money-bag and to stop Dalit leader Ramji Gautam, from going to Rajya Sabha.
