The UP BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh called for a press conference in Lucknow on Wednesday and Aditi Singh joined the BJP at the venue. This step will be regarded as a setback to the Congress party which is already struggling to regain its lost political grounds in the State ahead of the 2022 UP polls.<\/p>\n
The rebel Congress MLA from Raebareli Sadar, Aditi Singh, switched over to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Of note, the Rae Bareli seat is where the family of Aditi Singh has had its hold for nearly three decades. Her father, late Akhilesh Singh, was the Congress MLA here from 1993 till 2007 for the Congress, before winning as an Independent in 2007 after the Congress expelled him, and from the Peace Party in 2012. Aditi took over in 2017 by winning this seat on a Congress ticket.<\/p>\n
At the same time, veteran Nagpur BJP Leader Bhoyar joined Congress recently to contest from Nagpur in MLC Polls<\/p>\n
Aditi Singh had earlier expressed her support to the BJP-led central government\u2019s move to abrogate provisions of Article 370 of the Constitution that abrogated Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s special status.<\/p>\n
The UP Congress had written to the Speaker seeking disqualification of Raebareli legislator Singh for challenging the party rules and attending a special Assembly session organized by the Adityanath government last year to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Singh was absent from the party\u2019s training session in Raebareli last October and was served a show-cause notice by the then CLP leader Ajay Kumar Lallu.<\/p>\n
However, Assembly Speaker Hriday Narayan Dikshit had quashed the party\u2019s plea against Aditi Singh at that time.<\/p>\n