BSP sacks 12th MLA in two months(india)

Mayawati
The ruling Bahujan Samaj Party on Saturday suspended another party MLA-Yogesh Verma from Hastinapur, Meerut. The charge against Verma is involvement in criminal activities.
LUCKNOW: The ruling Bahujan Samaj Party on Saturday suspended another party MLA-Yogesh Verma from Hastinapur, Meerut. The charge against Verma is involvement in criminal activities.

With Verma's ouster, the total number of MLAs suspended by the BSP in the past two months has touched 12. BSP leaders described action against Verma as purging of criminals from the BSP by chief minister and party supremo Mayawati.

BSP state president Swami Prasad Maurya in an official statement said that on November 2, 2009, Verma and his aides were named in the murder of a couple Laxmi and Gyanedra Bansal. The complaint also accused Verma of trying to grab Bansal's property. Now, Maurya added, the son of the deceased couple Nikunj has lodged a complaint with the police accusing Verma and his brother Rajan of trying to kill him. "When police initiated action against Verma, the latter started issuing irresponsible statements against BSP and its leaders, hence the party has decided to suspended him and deny him a ticket for the 2012 assembly elections," he said.

Other BSP leaders suspended or expelled on charges of indiscipline and anti-party activities in the past two months include Malik Masood, two times MLA from Sagri, Azamgarh, and chairperson UP Udyog Bandhu; Awadh Pal Singh Yadav, MLA from Aliganj and former minister of state for dairy development and animal husbandry; Dasrath Prasad Chauhan, MLA from Haisar Bazar, Sant Kabir Nagar; Ashok Kumar Singh Chandel, MLA from Hamirpur Sadar, Hamirpur; Fareed Mehfooz Kidwai, MLA from Masauli, Barabanki; Sher Bahadur Singh, MLA from Ambedkar Nagar; Satish Varma, MLA from Hardoi; Guddu Pandit, MLA from Dibai, Bulandshahr; Yogendra Sagar, MLA from Bilsi, Budaun; Haji Yakoob Qureshi, MLA from Meerut city, Meerut; Jitendra Singh Babloo, MLA from Bikapur, Faizabad and Jaunpur MP Dhananjai Singh.