Lucknow: Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) expelled, its Legislative Council Member from the party for six years. The MLC is Yashwant Singh, who left his seat for Yogi Adityanath, in the last tenure of the UP CM. Adityanath was not the member of any house, when he was nominated as the Chief Minister from BJP. Yashwant Singh was then an MLC from Samajwadi Party (SP). Yashwant Singh is expelled from the party on charges of anti-party activities.
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According to the letter issued by BJP’s state general secretary and party headquarters in-charge Govind Narayan Shukla, there had been complaints he (Yashwant) has fielded his son Vikrant Singh from the Azamgarh-Mau local body authority seat of the UP Vidhan Parishad against the BJP’s official candidate. Yashwant was found to campaign for his son against BJP’s official candidate. On the basis of reports from regional leaders, the state unit president Swatantra Dev Singh decided to expell Yashwant Singh from the party. BJP has officially fielded Arun Yadav its official candidate from Azamgarh-Mau local bodies seat of the UP Vidhan Parishad.
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Once betrayed SP now BJP
If we see the history of Yashwant Singh, last time he betrayed the Samajwadi Party for the ruling party Bhartiya Janta Party. Then (in 2017) he left his seat for Yogi Adityanath, who was the CM but not the member of any house of the state. At that time yashwant betrayed SP for Adityanath. It is said that he did for casteism. As a result BJP sent him to the upper house, when the seats get vaccant. Now this time Yashwant demanded a ticket for his son but BJP denied. Yashwant fielded him independently. BJP didn’t accepted it and expelled him over the charges of betrayal.
