Amethi. Rebel SP MLAs Rakesh Pratap Singh, Abhay Singh and Vinod Chaturvedi have finally joined BJP. All three MLAs took membership at the party office in Amethi in the presence of former Union Minister Smriti Irani and State President Pankaj Chaudhary. The leaving of the three leaders from the party before the assembly elections is being considered a big blow for the SP.
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In fact, all three MLAs had cross-voted in the Rajya Sabha elections in 2024. Rakesh Pratap Singh is MLA from Gauriganj seat of Amethi. Abhay Singh is MLA from Gosainganj seat of Ayodhya and Vinod Chaturvedi from Kalpi assembly seat of Jalaun. All of them had won the elections in 2022 on SP ticket. On Wednesday, supporters of the three MLAs also took membership of BJP.
In this program, BJP National General Secretary Smriti Irani targeted SP. He said that SP's cycle has been punctured by BJP, Congress cannot contest elections on its own, Congress is raising questions on the Election Commission, it is not a membership but a resolution ceremony program.