Lucknow: With recent internal turmoil reported in the Trinamool Congress and Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena faction, a fresh political debate has erupted in Uttar Pradesh over the Samajwadi Party (SP).
UP minister and Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party leader Om Prakash Rajbhar claimed the SP could soon face a crisis similar to the one in Maharashtra. He alleged that senior SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav had written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah seeking entry into the BJP.
Rajbhar further alleged that fear of impending probes in cases linked to a mining scam and the Gomti riverfront development project was pushing SP leaders to approach the BJP. He went on to claim that, after the Trinamool Congress and the Uddhav Sena, the SP too was preparing to join the BJP.
The report also carried a rebuttal from the SP side, calling Rajbhar’s remarks baseless and insisting that the party’s MPs, MLAs and office-bearers are united. It accused the BJP of attempting to break and intimidate opposition parties, and claimed there is discontent within the BJP itself.
