Two more BSP MLAs disqualified by Speaker

Speaker of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Sukhdeo Rajbhar on Saturday disqualified two BSP MLAs,Jitendra Kumar Singh Babloo and Dasharath Prasad Chauhan under anti-defection law.

Rajbhar told reporters that the application of state BSP president Swami Prasad Maurya seeking disqualification of both the MLAs has been accepted.

While Jitendra Kumar Singh,MLA from Bikapur constituency in Faizabad district,has been disqualified from September 29,2011,Dasharath Prasad Chauhan,MLA from Haiser Bazar constituency in Sant Kabir Nagar,has been disqualified from October 12,2011.

Both these MLAs were suspended by the BSP in September this year during clean-up drive following allegations of their involvement in criminal activities.

Chauhan had won the 2007 Assembly election as Samajwadi Party candidate from Haiser Bazar but had quit from the Assembly to contest the by-election from Haiser Bazar as BSP candidate in November 2009. After being suspended by the BSP,he again went back to join the Samajwadi Party on October 12.

On the other hand,Jitendra Kumar Singh had joined the Peace Party of India on September 29.

With the disqualification of these two MLAs,altogether six BSP MLAs have been disqualified by the Speaker so far in the present Assembly,under the anti-defection law.

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