In another blow to the Samajwadi Party, former MLA Pramod Gupta, who is also the brother-in-law of Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav joined the BJP here on Thursday. Along with Pramod Gupta, Congress poster girl Dr. Priyanka Maurya also joined BJP. Yesterday, Aparna Yadav, youngest daughter in law of Mulayam Singh Yadav had joined the BJP in New Delhi.
Pramod Kumar Gupta, who was MLA from Auraiya of Samajwadi Party in 2012, along with Congress' poster girl Dr. Priyanka Maurya, Ayodhya's folk singer Vandana Mishra and BSP's candidate from Govind Nagar seat of Kanpur, Sunil Shukla also joined BJP in presence of state BJP joining committee chairman Dr. Laxmikant Bajpai here at the state party headquarters on today. After joining BJP, Mr Gupta made very serious allegations against Akhilesh Yadav alleging that Akhilesh Yadav has taken Netaji (Mulayam) hostage.
"In the Samajwadi Party, only goons dominate," Mr Gupta said while adding that Akhilesh Yadav is surrounded by sycophants. "Mulayam Singh has become old. Now neither Akhilesh listens to him nor does anyone in the party listen. Akhilesh has made Mulayam cry a lot. Today his condition is only because of Akhilesh," he further charged. Pramod Gupta claimed that around 20 SP MLAs are ready to join BJP if the party allows them in.