Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has suspended two legislators — Harvinder Sahani alias Romi Sahani and Brajesh Verma for revolting against the party and banned them from attending any party function.
The party's State unit president Ramachal Rajbhar in a statement issued on Wednesday said both the MlAs have been suspended from the party. Replying to the charges leveled by both the MlAs, earlier in the day, Rajbhar said the Assembly tickets of both the leaders were refused, due to which they made wild charges against the party leadership. "Romi was only interested in his business in lucknow and was not giving attention to his Assembly segment in lakhimpur Kheri. That is why he was denied the ticket by the party. Brajesh was refused as he was involved in just promoting his family members in the just-concluded rural local bodies polls," Rajbhar clarified while denying allegations of the party demanding any money in lieu of party tickets.
This is the second time that both the legislators have been thrown out of the BSP. Earlier, they were expelled in June but were re-inducted after they gave a written apology.
Earlier Romi and Brajesh had alleged that BSP supremo Mayawati had demanded `4 crore to `5 crores from them for the Assembly tickets which they refused.