Through PTI
PRATAPGARH: Amid a spate of resignations from the BJP, two MLAs of its best friend Apna Dal (Sonelal) additionally hand over their birthday celebration Thursday in run-up to the meeting polls in Uttar Pradesh.
Chaudhary Amar Singh, the MLA from Shohratgarh seat of Siddharthnagar, advised PTI that he has resigned from the birthday celebration after a gathering with Samajwadi Birthday celebration leader Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow this night.
Singh is prone to contest from Shohratgarh seat on an SP price tag.
Apna Dal (Sonelal) MLA RK Verma, who represents the Vishwanath Ganj seat of Pratapgarh, additionally introduced that he’s leaving the birthday celebration.
He advised PTI that he’s going to officially surrender on Friday and elaborate the explanation why he used to be quitting the birthday celebration.
Apna Dal (Sonelal), led by way of Union minister Anupriya Patel, had contested the 2017 meeting elections in alliance with the BJP.
It had fielded applicants on 12 seats and gained 9.
The advance comes within the backdrop of a spate of resignations from the ruling BJP.
On Thursday, OBC chief Dharam Singh Saini turned into the 3rd minister to surrender from the Uttar Pradesh cupboard this week, giving but some other jolt to the ruling BJP within the run-up to the meeting polls.
Hours earlier than Saini’s resignation, Shikohabad MLA Mukesh Verma introduced that he’s leaving the BJP.
Many of the 8 MLAs, together with the ministers, who’ve declared they’re quitting all through the remaining 3 days are from the Different Backward Categories and seem to be headed against Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Birthday celebration.