UP Election: Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Sunday took a (thinly veiled) swipe at the six ex-BJP MLAs from UP, including three ministers, who quit this week to join Akhilesh Yadav ahead of next month's polls, calling them "rioters".
Akhilesh Yadav on Friday taunted the BJP for losing "one wicket after the other" and not fathoming the SP strategy as he inducted two ministers and six other MLAs who recently deserted the ruling alliance into his Samajwadi Party. Apart from the six BJP MLAs, a legislator from BJP ally Apna Dal (Sonelal) also joined the SP at a large public meeting in the compound of the party
Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday announced that he would not let any more Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs or ministers join the SP.
Former Uttar Pradesh ministers and OBC leaders Swami Prasad Maurya and Dharam Singh Saini - who resigned this week from the Yogi Adityanath government and the ruling BJP just weeks before Assembly polls - on Friday joined the Samajwadi Party.
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