BJP leader Ashok Pradhan joins SP

The Samajwadi Party got a shot in its arm when senior BJP leader Ashok Pradhan joined the party as Mulayam Singh Yadav said that UP’s Bharatiya Janata Party in-charge Amit Shah could spell a doom for his party by his outrageous statements.

"With his recent statement it is proved that Shah is a Bhasmasoor and will destroy BJP. Everyone knows the credentials of Shah and how he orchestrated riots in Gujarat. There is no doubt that Shah will spell doom for BJP," Yadav said while addressing press conference here on Tuesday.

"The statement of Shah was aimed at creating differences between Hindus and Muslims. He wants to destroy communal harmony of the society," he said. "We all are fighting against these forces since long and now as BJP leader Ashok Pradhan too has joined us now BJP’s  end is certain," he said.When asked as why Akhilesh Yadav government has not arrested Shah despite two FIRs being registered against him at Shamli and Bijnore districts. Yadav said the law will take its due course.

Election Commission has served a notice to Shah over his hate speech and asked him to reply by tomorrow.Earlier, fourt time BJP MP and former Union Minister Ashok Pradhan joined Samajwadi Party along with Prem Prakash Tiwari alias Gippy Tiwari from Sidharthnagar.Tiwari, is three-time BJP MlA from Doomariaganj assembly segement.Pradhan was appointed as party’s national general secretary.

While talking to reporters Pradhan said that the dedicated workers were feeling neglected in the party because of end of Atal-Advani era.Without taking the name of former UP Chief Minister Kalyan Singh, Pradhan said BJP was giving prominence to that leader who had abused Atal Bihari Vajpayee and even claimed to bury the BJP.Pradhan had won lok Sabha elections in 1996,1998,1999 and 2004 from Khurja seat in Bulandshahr district and was a minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.