Samajwadi Party legislator Sarojini Agarwal quits party, joins BJP

Lucknow: In another blow to Samajwadi Party, senior legislator Sarojini Agarwal quit the party on Friday and announced she is joining BJP. [caption id=“attachment_3893715” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] File image of Sarojini Agarwal. Twitter @DrSarojiniMLC[/caption] An eminent gynaecologist of Meerut, Agarwal also resigned from the Upper House of the state Assembly. She is considered close to the Mulayam Singh Yadav-Shivpal Singh camp in the Samajwadi Party. With the Samajwadi Party for a very long time, Agarwal was a member of the Legislative Council for a second time and her tenure was till 30 January, 2021. Late last month, three senior Samajwadi Party MLCs had quit the party. After her resignation, Agarwal said she was very upset with the way the party was treating its founder Mulayam Singh Yadav and had no reason to continue despite over three years of her tenure left. She also announced that she was joining BJP. Agarwal’s resignation and that of the three MLCs is likely to help in the entry of five Uttar Pradesh ministers, including Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, deputy chief ministers Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Sharma, Mohsin Raza and Swatantra Dev Singh into the House within the stipulated six month time. The Opposition has alleged that BJP was engineering these resignations to ensure that its Chief Minister and others enter the House through the back gate as they did not have the guts to contest direct elections.