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Ahead of Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, former State Cabinet Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA Ramveer Upadhyay on Saturday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Agra.
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has released the first list of candidates on 53 assembly seats of Uttar Pradesh for the upcoming polls.
There is no more room in the Samajwadi Party for "any BJP MLA, minister anymore" - Akhilesh Yadav's words on Saturday morning, a day after he welcomed seven ex-lawmakers, including two ministers, who quit the Yogi Adityanath government.
For the first two phases of voting, the BJP announced the names of 107 candidates for as many seats. The winning MLAs from 63 of these seats have been retained, while the remaining 20 sitting MLAs have been dropped.
But the saffron-robed militant leader has been taken into custody for earlier comments against women, not his calls for genocide of Muslims.