This story is from July 17, 2020
Ex-UP minister back in BSP fold
LUCKNOW:
“Singh is an extremely influential Thakur leader in Basti and his return, along with his brother, will guarantee at least three seats for BSP in the 2022 assembly polls,” said a senior BSP member. He said that Singh enjoyed tremendous clout in the district, even though there were comparatively less Thakurs in the region. His son is currently a zila panchayat president.
Singh had left BSP in 2003 to become a minister in the Mulayam government. He was with SP till 2019, having been dropped once from the cabinet by Akhilesh Yadav in 2016 along with Gayatri Prajapati on corruption charges.
Sources in BSP said that Singh had wanted to contest the 2019 general elections from Basti on an SP ticket but the seat went to BSP. At that point, Singh and his brother moved to Congress. On Thursday, when they joined BSP, Singh said that Congress was a party of ‘mathadheesh’ and it was his biggest mistake to join the party.
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Raj Kishore Singh
, aformer minister
in SP governments and once under BSP, returned to BSP on Thursday along with his brother Dimple.Lok Sabha
polls after he was denied a ticket since the seat had gone to BSP’s kitty under the seat sharing arrangement between the two parties.“Singh is an extremely influential Thakur leader in Basti and his return, along with his brother, will guarantee at least three seats for BSP in the 2022 assembly polls,” said a senior BSP member. He said that Singh enjoyed tremendous clout in the district, even though there were comparatively less Thakurs in the region. His son is currently a zila panchayat president.
Singh had left BSP in 2003 to become a minister in the Mulayam government. He was with SP till 2019, having been dropped once from the cabinet by Akhilesh Yadav in 2016 along with Gayatri Prajapati on corruption charges.
Sources in BSP said that Singh had wanted to contest the 2019 general elections from Basti on an SP ticket but the seat went to BSP. At that point, Singh and his brother moved to Congress. On Thursday, when they joined BSP, Singh said that Congress was a party of ‘mathadheesh’ and it was his biggest mistake to join the party.
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