LUCKNOW: Less than a week after joining them, Bharatiya Janata Party Former BSP MLA Jitendra Singh Bablu was sacked on Tuesday. was dismissed in the backdrop of the tough stand taken by BJP MP Rita Bahuguna Joshi had sought the removal of Singh from the party for his alleged involvement in the arson and setting her house on fire in Lucknow in 2009.
Joshi, who was UP Congress Committee The President is known to have met at the time of the incident BJP National President JP Nadda expressed his objection to the party’s decision to induct Jitendra into the party on 7 August. UP BJP President Swatantra Dev Singh on Tuesday evening formally issued an order for Bablu’s expulsion. Reacting to the development, Joshi said that she feels satisfied with the party’s decision to end Bablu’s membership.
However, experts said the development came as an embarrassment to the BJP, which is claiming to have properly scrutinized the candidates before inducting them into the party. According to the affidavit filed by Bablu in the 2017 UP assembly election, he faces 60 criminal cases including attempt to murder, dacoity, kidnapping and breach of peace.
In July 2009, a group of masked men attacked Joshi’s house in Lucknow with an iron rod and then set it on fire. The incident took place when Joshi made derogatory remarks on BSP supremo Mayawati about rape victims. Bablu and another BSP leader Intezar Abidi were made accused in the case. On the day he joined the BJP, Bablu had said that he was falsely implicated in the case and was demanding a CB-CID probe.
Bablu was elected as a BSP MLA from Bikapur in Ayodhya in the 2007 UP assembly elections, in which Mayawati formed the government with an absolute majority for the first time. However, Bablu was denied ticket by Mayawati in the 2012 assembly elections, after which he changed Peace Party. Even Mayawati expelled him, but he was disqualified from the UP assembly under the anti-defection law.
Since then his political fortunes have been sinking.
Joshi, who was UP Congress Committee The President is known to have met at the time of the incident BJP National President JP Nadda expressed his objection to the party’s decision to induct Jitendra into the party on 7 August. UP BJP President Swatantra Dev Singh on Tuesday evening formally issued an order for Bablu’s expulsion. Reacting to the development, Joshi said that she feels satisfied with the party’s decision to end Bablu’s membership.
However, experts said the development came as an embarrassment to the BJP, which is claiming to have properly scrutinized the candidates before inducting them into the party. According to the affidavit filed by Bablu in the 2017 UP assembly election, he faces 60 criminal cases including attempt to murder, dacoity, kidnapping and breach of peace.
In July 2009, a group of masked men attacked Joshi’s house in Lucknow with an iron rod and then set it on fire. The incident took place when Joshi made derogatory remarks on BSP supremo Mayawati about rape victims. Bablu and another BSP leader Intezar Abidi were made accused in the case. On the day he joined the BJP, Bablu had said that he was falsely implicated in the case and was demanding a CB-CID probe.
Bablu was elected as a BSP MLA from Bikapur in Ayodhya in the 2007 UP assembly elections, in which Mayawati formed the government with an absolute majority for the first time. However, Bablu was denied ticket by Mayawati in the 2012 assembly elections, after which he changed Peace Party. Even Mayawati expelled him, but he was disqualified from the UP assembly under the anti-defection law.
Since then his political fortunes have been sinking.
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