Prominent OBC leader Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) President Om Prakash Rajbhar, former minister Dara Singh Chauhan, former Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) MP Rajpal Saini, former minister Sahab Singh Saini, and former MLA Sushma Patel are some of the prominent leaders who have defected to the BJP. In addition to them, Shalini Yadav, who was the SP s candidate in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections against Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi, too has joined the BJP.
Muzaffarnagar riots: This is the second disqualification from the Uttar Pradesh Assembly in recent times, SP leader and Rampur MLA Azam Khan was also disqualified as MLA on October 28.
The woman in question filed a police case against Jawed Habib for spitting on her head during a seminar in western Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar town earlier this week.