The Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party on Sunday said it would discuss the future of its alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party in its meeting on coming Tuesday.
The SBSP decision comes barely two days after it supported the BJP in the Rajya Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh. The SBSP has four MLAs in the UP Assembly and its national president Om Prakash Rajbhar is a Cabinet minister in the Yogi Adityanath Council of Ministers.
“We will be holding an emergency meeting of the party executive on March 27 (Tuesday) in Lucknow to discuss the issue of continuing support to the BJP,” SBSP national chief general secretary Arvind Rajbhar said. Arvind is the son of SBSP national president Om Prakash Rajbhar.
“The administration has gone out of control. The situation can be gauged from the fact that the station officer of a police station in Azamgarh, when asked to look into a genuine matter, told Om Prakash Rajbhar to himself get the matter resolved,” Arvind said.
The meeting will also discuss the party’s upcoming conference in Deoria and expansion of the organisation.
On SBSP MLAs cross voting in the Rajya Sabha polls, Arvind said, “No SBSP MLA cross-voted. The party has, however, taken cognisance of media reports and issued notices to two MLAs. It is possible that the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party are making these allegations to get the SBSP in their alliance after leaving the BJP.”
Days before the Rajya Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh, the SBSP had sent shock waves in the corridors of power in the state by skipping the first anniversary celebrations of the Yogi government on March 19 and announcing that its MLAs would not vote for the BJP.
The sulking alliance partner SBSP chief rushed to Delhi and met BJP president Amit Shah to register its complaint that the “big brother BJP” was not following “coalition dharma”. But, after talks with Shah, Om Prakash Rajbhar appeared mollified and announced that his party’s MLAs would back BJP candidates in the Rajya Sabha polls. “I have met BJP president Amit Shah, who noted the points raised by me and said he would visit Lucknow on April 10 and sit with me, BJP state president and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to get all the issues resolved. We have decided to vote for the BJP in the Rajya Sabha polls,” Rajbhar had said. Before meeting Shah, the SBSP president had said, “We have made this government and it is our duty to repeatedly point out its shortcomings. Holding celebrations is not going to serve the purpose. Building temples in Mathura and Kashi will not give education to the poor, or toilets and pension to them.”