The Rashtriya Lok Dal brass appointed party MLA from Budhana constituency of Muzaffarnagar, Rajpal Baliyan, as the leader of RLD Legislature Party in UP assembly on Monday.
In a letter sent to Principal Secretary, UP Assembly Secretariat, Pradeep Kumar Dubey, RLD president Jayant Chaudhary said that the decision to appoint Baliyan as leader of the RLD in assembly was taken at a meeting of RLD Legislature Party on March 26.
"Baliyan was appointed unanimously as leader of the RLD in the UP assembly,’ Jayant Chaudhary stated in the letter.
The RLD leadership also appointed MLA from Siwalkhas (Meerut) Gulam Mohammed as Baliyan’s deputy, RLD MLA from Chaprauli (Baghpat) Prof Ajay Kumar as chief whip of RLD, party MLA from Thana Bhawan (Shamli) Mohammed Asraf Ali as deputy chief whip and MLA from Sadabad (Hathras) Pradeep Guddu as treasurer of RLD Legislature Party in the assembly.
In the recently concluded UP assembly elections, the RLD won eight seats. The party had contested the elections in alliance with Samajwadi Party on 32 seats.