Dharam Singh Saini: Prominent OBC leader and former minister Dharam Singh Saini, who, quit the Bharatiya Janata Party along with Swami Prasad Maurya to join the Samajwadi Party just before the 2022 UP elections, is about to return to the party fold.
According to reports, Saini lost his traditional Nakur seat to BJP’s Mukesh Chaudhary in 2022 Assembly elections. He will now once again become a BJP member in the presence of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday in Khatauli. The CM is going to campaign for the party in Khatauli by poll today.
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MLA’s disqualification led to by-poll
Yogi is likely to address an election rally in Khatauli on Wednesday in support of BJP candidate Rajkumari Saini, the wife of former MLA Vikram Saini. The bypoll was caused when Saini was disqualified after his conviction in Muzaffarnagar riot case. Saini, an Ayurveda practitioner, had joined the BJP months before 2017 assembly polls after leaving the Bahujan Samaj Party along with Swami Prasad Maurya.
Dharam Singh Saini and Swami Prasad Maurya both were cabinet ministers in the first tenure of Yogi Adityanath.
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Saini joined SP
Barely two months before the assembly elections in 2022, Saini and six other OBC leaders resigned from the party and joined Samajwadi Party. The gave the reason for ‘gross neglect’ of the Dalits, backwards and farmers by the government in the state.
Saini contested the election from Nakur, a seat that he had won three times earlier. However, he lost in 2022 to BJP candidate.
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