Big setback for Mayawati, two BSP MLAs resign, join Samajwadi Party

  • UP Assembly elections are to be held in February-March and the political turmoil has already been intensifying.
  • Two BSP MLAs Lalji Verma and Ram Achal Rajbhar on Sunday joined the Samajwadi Party.
  • BSP supremo Mayawati has suffered a major setback. Both Rajbhar and Lalji Verma have been MLAs for five terms each.
  • Both have been cabinet ministers several times. Ram Achal Rajbhar was the state president of BSP.
  • Including both of them in the party, Akhilesh Yadav said that they will strengthen the Samajwadi Party.