Still not an official member of the party, the former bureaucrat was involved in the SP’s strategy team and helped draw up its 2022 Assembly poll manifesto
The ASI had undertaken the survey on the orders of the Varanasi court that had directed it to ascertain whether the mosque was “constructed over a pre-existing structure of a Hindu temple”.
As per the order of the court, the AAP MP on August 8, 2021 held a press conference in Lucknow and made “false, fallacious, baseless” allegations and remarks against the former UP minister and the BJP “only to gain cheap publicity and political mileage”.