Cracking a disciplinary whip the Bharatiya Janata party suspended its Gorakhpur (rural) MlA Vijay Bahadur for violating party whip and voting in favour of Samajwadi Party candidates in the Rajya Sabha polls.
In a statement issued here on Sunday BJP legislature party leader Suresh Khanna said that the legislator has been suspended for violating the whip and voting for the SP candidate,
"The legal process will be initiated against the suspended MlA for his disqualification from the state assembly,” he said adding: "I have recommended the state unit chief to take action against Yadav as his act comes under voluntary anti-defection law."
The BJP MlA had cross voted in favour of Samajwadi Party candidate. “I voted on the basis of development done by the Chief Minister and I am ready to make any sacrifice," Vijay Bahadur said.
Meanwhile Khanna claimed that the show of the BJP in the just concluded council and Rajya Sabha polls was excellent. "In the council the party got the support of 51 legislators. We got 10 additional votes against our strength of 41. But in the Rajya Sabha the number went up to 54. The legislators had voted in favour of BJP as well as party-supported Independent candidate," he said.