INDIA
Two Samajwadi Party (SP) members and one from the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) today quit from the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council even as the two partiesn blamed the BJP for their move.
Two Samajwadi Party (SP) members and one from the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) today quit from the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council even as the two partiesn blamed the BJP for their move.
The resignations of the SP members -- Bukkal Nawab and Yashwant Singh -- and Thakur Jaiveer Singh from the BSP have been accepted, Chairman of the UP Legislative Council Ramesh Yadav said.
The SP, the BSP and the Congress, however, held the BJP responsible for the resignation.
SP chief and former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav said he had met Nawab on Eid and wondered as to why he had a "sudden change of heart".
"I will talk to him (Nawab), if he has not been kept hostage and ask him as to why he is not giving the ruling BJP leaders a chance to face the public (election)... (Why) some MLCs are being lured and tutored so as to enable (their leaders) to not face the people," he told reporters here.
"While 'political corruption' is on a big scale in Bihar, it seems the same will be done in Uttar Pradesh... The people are seeing what is happening... Those who have to go will go, they cannot be stopped," he said.
In a statement, BSP president Mayawati said the BJP's "greed for power has turned into lust for power".
The recent developments in Gujarat and UP proved that the Modi government has put the future of democracy at risk, she said, adding that instead of bowing before the BJP, the three MLCs should have faced the official terror and harassment as that was the only way to counter such forces.
After submitting his resignation, Nawab said he was "feeling suffocated" in the party for the last one year and that he was ready to meet the BJP leadership if called by it.
Jaiveer Singh alleged that the BSP has deviated from its path and, therefore, he resigned from the party.
UP Congress general secretary Deepak Singh, an MLC, alleged that as Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his ministers will not be able to get elected to the Assembly, they are 'forcing' the opposition members in the Council to resign from their seats by giving them the threat of the Central Bureau of Investigation, the Enforcement Directorate and the Income Tax department.
The resignations of three MLCs came on a day BJP president Amit Shah arrived here on a three-day visit.
The saffron party has to soon take a decision on five of its ministers in Uttar Pradesh, including Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who are not members of either of the two Houses.
Besides Adityanath, deputy chief ministers Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Sharma, ministers Swatantra Dev Singh and Mohsin Raza are not members of either the Assembly or the Council and will have to get elected to either of the two Houses to continue as ministers.
(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)
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