Samajwadi Party: Samajwadi Party has written a letter to the Speaker of the Assembly to cancel the membership of its 7 rebel MLAs. They have written a letter demanding to take away the membership of their 7 rebel MLAs. These MLAs had rebelled against the party and supported the Bharatiya Janata Party from Rajya Sabha elections to Lok Sabha elections. Although Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav had said during the elections that the public will take account of this, but SP is now preparing to insist on cancelling the membership of these MLAs.
Rebel MLAs
The Samajwadi Party MLAs who rebelled include Rakesh Pratap Singh, Manoj Pandey, Abhay Singh, Rakesh Pandey, Vinod Chaturvedi, Puja Pal and Ashutosh Maurya.
7 MLAs supported BJP candidates by cross voting
Let us tell you that in the Rajya Sabha elections held for 10 seats of UP, Samajwadi Party has suffered a setback from its own MLAs. 7 SP MLAs supported BJP candidates by cross voting. At the same time, one MLA did not vote, which also caused loss to the party. One of these 7 MLAs, Rakesh Pratap Singh, said after cross voting that the candidates fielded by SP are not our workers.
workers struggle on the street
Rebel SP MLA Rakesh Pratap Singh said that I and 6 other MLAs together have voted for BJP. The three candidates fielded by SP are not our workers. One worker struggles on the road and the other is sent home. I have been in the party for 21 years. I followed the footsteps of Mulayam Singh, understood Akhilesh Yadav but now the party is not the same as before. What will happen next will be decided. We 7 people have voted for BJP.
In the Rajya Sabha elections, SP was claiming victory of all its three candidates, but seven SP MLAs deviated from the party line and voted in support of BJP's eighth candidate Sanjay Seth. SP's chief whip Manoj Pandey and Rakesh Pandey along with Rakesh Pratap Singh, Abhay Singh, Vinod Chaturvedi, Puja Pal and Ashutosh Maurya voted for the BJP candidate. At the same time, the wife of Gayatri Prajapati, who was a minister in the SP government, did not come to vote.