Bahujan Samaj Occasion (BSP) MP Ritesh Pandey resigned from the first membership of the social gathering and joined the BJP right this moment within the presence of Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak and different senior leaders. Pandey is an MP from the Ambedkar Nagar Lok Sabha constituency.
Earlier within the day, he posted his resignation letter on X and captioned it, “Resignation from primary membership of Bahujan Samaj Party.”
Talking to the information company ANI, Pandey mentioned he had labored for the BSP for the final 15 years and didn’t need to touch upon the “thinking and activities” of social gathering supremo Mayawati.
“I have written in detail about this in my resignation letter. Whatever is happening in my constituency has happened in the last five years. I have taken this decision after evaluating all those things which are happening on the ground be it two industrial areas in the constituency, the Purvanchal Sxpressway, Gorakhpur-link Expressway, schools, the four-lane road that connects Ambedkar Nagar to Ayodhya’s Ram Temple along with the way the economic condition of people, farmers, women and Dalits have changed and uplifted their living standards,” he added.
Pandey was one of many eight MPs with whom Prime Minister Narendra Modi sat down for lunch within the Parliament canteen earlier this month.
The MPs and the Prime Minister ate vegetarian thalis and ragi laddus throughout the shock lunch on February 9.
Pandey has represented the Ambedkar Nagar constituency since 2019. He was additionally a MLA from Jalalpur between 2017 and 2019 earlier than he was elected as an MP.
In an identical growth, a supply advised India Right now that BSP MP from Jaunpur Shyam Singh Yadav can also be more likely to be part of the Congress as he’s slated to attend the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra from Agra right this moment.
The most recent developments got here nearly per week after BSP supremo Mayawati dismissed rumours of forming a coalition forward of the Lok Sabha elections.
She affirmed that her social gathering will contest the upcoming elections independently.
