The Samajwadi Party on Monday expelled three of its MLAs, who allegedly cross-voted and helped the BJP win the Rajya Sabha polls last year, for siding with ideologies opposed to the party’s core values and working against public interest.
Those expelled from the party are Abhay Singh (MLA from Gosainganj in Ayodhya), Rakesh Pratap Singh (Gauriganj in Amethi) and Manoj Kumar Pandey (Unchahar in Raebareli), the SP said in an official statement shared on its social media handles.
The move comes more than a year after the February 2024 Rajya Sabha elections in which the three SP MLAs were accused of siding with the BJP, helping it win 8 out of 10 seats from Uttar Pradesh despite the SP’s strength to claim at least four. PTI
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