Samajwadi Party has revoked the suspension of Ruchi Veera, the party MlA from Bijnor and expulsion of four other leaders. The party leaders were suspended from the party for anti party activities in December last year as they had opposed the official candidate for the election of chairman of district panchyat.
The SP has however not revoked the expulsion of Udyan Veera, husband of the MlA. He was the rebel candidate in the election of chairman of district Panchyat and had defeated the official candidate of the party. The SP has fielded the wife of the party MlA Manoj Paras for post of chairman of the district panchyat.
The other party leaders who have been reinstated are Yashvir Singh, former MP, Jameel Ansari, former district president of the party, Sheikh Khaliqur rahman, chairman of Nagina Nagar Palika and Khushnud Khan, former member of the state executive of the party.
Bijnor is a general seat while the SP has given ticket to a candidate from the schedule caste community. The party leaders had opposed the official candidate and had demanded the ticket for Udyan Veera, husband of the party MlA from the Vaishya community.
SP had also suspended five MlAs of Sitapur district for opposing the official candidate for the post of the chairman of the district panchyat. Their suspensions were revoked on February 13. The MlAs were Rampal Yadav, Mahendra Singh, alias Jheen Babu, Manish Rawat, Radhey Shyam Jaiswal and Anup Gupta.