Ex-BJP MLA joins SP
Lucknow Dec 20 PTI Former BJP MLA from Ballia Ram Iqbal Singh a known critic of his partys government in Uttar Pradesh on Monday joined the Samajwadi Party ahead of the 2022 UP Assembly polls In a tweet the SP dubbed the BJPs ex-MLA joining it as a sign of its growing caravan The growing caravan of SP Former BJP MLA from Chilkahar assembly constituency in Ballia Ram Iqbal Singh joined the SP along with his associates reposing faith in the leadership of its national president Akhilesh Yadav the SP said in a tweet Singh also a former member of the BJPs state executive committee was elected as an MLA from Chilkahar assembly constituency in the 2002 UP assembly elections Following the delimitation of assembly constituencies in 2008 Chilkahar ceased to exist On October 14 Singh had accused Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Kumar Mishra of being behind the Lakhimpur violence and sought his sacking from Prime Minister Narendra Modi He had earlier said bureaucrats are running the government in the state and had also raised a question mark on the handling of the second Covid wave by the Yogi Adityanath government On November 10 Singh had taken a dig at Yogi Adityanath suggesting that if he is removed from the post of the chief minister he will immediately become a monk PTI NAV RAX RAX
Lucknow Dec 20 PTI Former BJP MLA from Ballia Ram Iqbal Singh a known critic of his partys government in Uttar Pradesh on Monday joined the Samajwadi Party ahead of the 2022 UP Assembly polls In a tweet the SP dubbed the BJPs ex-MLA joining it as a sign of its growing caravan The growing caravan of SP Former BJP MLA from Chilkahar assembly constituency in Ballia Ram Iqbal Singh joined the SP along with his associates reposing faith in the leadership of its national president Akhilesh Yadav the SP said in a tweet Singh also a former member of the BJPs state executive committee was elected as an MLA from Chilkahar assembly constituency in the 2002 UP assembly elections Following the delimitation of assembly constituencies in 2008 Chilkahar ceased to exist On October 14 Singh had accused Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Kumar Mishra of being behind the Lakhimpur violence and sought his sacking from Prime Minister Narendra Modi He had earlier said bureaucrats are running the government in the state and had also raised a question mark on the handling of the second Covid wave by the Yogi Adityanath government On November 10 Singh had taken a dig at Yogi Adityanath suggesting that if he is removed from the post of the chief minister he will immediately become a monk PTI NAV RAX RAX
