Mafia-turned-politician Bhagwan Sharma aka Guddu Pandit and his brother Mukesh Sharma were expelled from Bahujan Samaj Party on Friday.
Pandit had contested the Lok Sabha election against Congress state president Raj Babbar from Fatehpur Sikri constituency but was defeated by Bharatiya Janta Party nominee. Action was taken against both brothers for their abusive language, indiscipline and anti-party activities.
BSP district president of Gautam Buddha Nagar, Lakshmi Singh, confirmed to media persons on Friday that Guddu Pandit and Mukesh Sharma had been expelled from the party. He also issued an official release in this regard which stated that Pandit had used objectionable comments against many party workers during election in Fatehpur Sikri.
Singh said that they had probed the matter after receiving complaint in this regard and found the allegations to be true.
The BSP district president said that it was also found that both the brothers were engaged in anti-party activities for a long time and a report in this regard was sent to the party high command and on the direction of the party supremo, he had expelled Guddu Pandit and his brother Mukesh Sharma from the party.
Guddu Pandit, a resident of Dibai area of Bulandshahr, remained MLA from Dibai and his brother Mukesh Sharma remained MLA from Sikrapur. While they remained BSP MLAs from 2007 to 2012, for the next five years (2012-17), they were elected to Assembly on Samajwadi Party ticket. In the 2017 UP Legislative Council elections, as both voted in favour of Bharatiya Janata Party candidate, they were expelled from the SP. They later tried to join BJP but after getting no favourable reply, they finally returned to BSP and Pandit got a ticket to contest Lok Sabha poll from Fatehpur Sikri.