Lucknow, June 23
The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Monday expelled three of its sitting MLAs -- Abhay Singh (Gosaiganj), Rakesh Pratap Singh (Gauriganj), and Manoj Kumar Pandey (Unchahar) -- for indulging in what it described as anti-party activities and ideological deviation.
The decision was announced through an official statement on the party’s X handle.
The statement cited the legislators’ alleged alignment with “communal, divisive, and negative ideologies,” contradicting the party’s “socialist, harmonious, and progressive” values.
“In view of their consistent opposition to the interests of farmers, women, youth, entrepreneurs, working professionals, and the PDA (Pichhda, Dalit, Alpsankhyak) alliance, and their support to ideologies that go against the SP's core principles, the party has decided to expel the following MLAs in the public interest -- Shri Abhay Singh (Gosaiganj), Shri Rakesh Pratap Singh (Gauriganj), and Shri Manoj Kumar Pandey (Unchahar),” the party said in its post.
The SP further noted that while these legislators were earlier given a “grace period” to reconsider their political stance and return to the party fold, they failed to do so.