Former Madhuban MLA Umesh Pandey joins BJP forward of Ghosi bypolls | Lucknow Information
LUCKNOW: A 12 months after he joined the Samajwadi Celebration, former BSP MLA from Madhuban meeting seat in Mau, Umesh Pandey shifted loyalties and joined the BJP on Thursday.
Pandey joined the BJP on the state get together workplace within the presence of UP BJP chief Bhupendra Chaudhary and deputy CM Brajesh Pathak.
His becoming a member of is seen as a nudge to SP forward of the Ghosi by polls the place BJP’s Dara Singh Chauhan is up towards SP’s Sudhakar Singh. With out taking anybody’s identify, Pandey slammed SP chief Akhilesh Yadav for giving ticket to an individual who was a felony.
“I’ve served the folks of Madhuban and Mau. I had informed the SP chief that I’ll give up if Sudhakar is given a ticket,” he mentioned, whereas talking to reporters. He mentioned that his brother, Akhilesh Pandey, who was the block pramukh was murdered in Mulayam Singh Yadav’s regime in 2005. “We’ll assist in the event of the nation beneath the management of PM Narendra Modi and CM Yogi Adityanath,” he mentioned, including that he could be going straight to Ghosi to marketing campaign for BJP.
Pandey gained from Madhuban in 2012 on a BSP ticket. In 2017, nevertheless, he misplaced the seat to Dara Singh Chauhan who had then converted to BJP from BSP. Pandey subsequently joined the SP and contested the Madhuban seat in 2022 on a SP ticket however misplaced to Ram Bilash Chauhan.
The induction of Pandey was seen as BJP’s bid to consolidate the higher caste votes within the Ghosi meeting constituency. Chauhan had confronted a protest in Ghosi when an individual threw ink on his face.
Deputy CM Pathak mentioned that the folks of Ghosi knew anarchy and hooliganism had been within the DNA of SP. “SP has proved this by giving a ticket to a felony,” he mentioned. “This exhibits the mentality of SP. That is the rationale why the folks of the state have pushed the Samajwadi Celebration to the fringes,” he mentioned.
