Samajwadi Party MLA Who Joined BJP Expelled For "Anti-Party Activities"

The Samajwadi Party on Tuesday said it has expelled MLA Rajesh Kumar Shukla from the party's primary membership in the wake of his "anti-party activities" and switching over to the ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh.

Mr Shukla, the lone SP MLA in Madhya Pradesh, along with an MLA of the Bahujan Samaj Party and an independent legislator joined the BJP in Bhopal on Tuesday in the presence Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.

Now, the SP has no legislator in the 230-member state Assembly.

After Mr Shukla joined the BJP, SP's Madhya Pradesh unit president Ramayan Patel, while talking to PTI, claimed "the ruling BJP is showing its money power and luring MLAs from opposition parties into its fold, resulting in the murder of democracy." He said  Rajesh Kumar Shukla has been expelled from the SP's primary membership for indulging in anti-party activities and joining hands with the BJP.