BJP state president Bhupendra Singh Choudhary.
– Photo: Amar Ujala
Expansion
Many leaders of BSP and SP, including two former ministers of state, joined the BJP. During this time, former BSP government minister Anant Kumar Mishra Antu also participated in the program, but he could not take membership. According to sources, due to allegations of involvement in a case, green signal was not given to his name from the high command.
At the party state headquarters, in front of State President Bhupendra Singh Choudhary, Deputy Chief Minister Brijesh Pathak, Cabinet Minister Swatantra Dev Singh, Minister of State in the BSP government, Achhe Lal Nishad (Banda), former Minister of State in the BSP government and former MLA Siddh Gopal Sahu (Mahoba), SP Former MLC and former Lok Sabha candidate Shyam Sundar Singh (Jhansi), former BSP MLA Madhusudhan Sharma (Agra), former teacher area MLC candidate from Uttar Pradesh Secondary Teachers Association Mahendra Nath Rai (Lucknow), former BSP MLA Dr. Apart from Hafiz Irshad (Azamgarh), former SP MLA Jitendra Verma (Agra), former BSP candidates Ashish Kumar Sinha and Jagdutt Kori in Lucknow also joined BJP.
Former minister Anant Kumar Antu said that I had come to meet the BJP state president. Had to talk to him about some important topic. The membership induction ceremony was also going on at that time. I went back after talking to the state president.