Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha Speaker Mata Prasad Pandey on Saturday disqualified five Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLAs who had left the party to form a separate outfit.
Jaiveer Singh, Surendra Vikram Singh, Ram Kishan, Ramji Shukla and Dharam Pal left the BSP with 33 others and formed the Loktantrik Bahujan Dal (LBD) which merged with the Samajwadi Party.
The legislators then returned to the BSP after the Allahabad High Court quashed the then Assembly Speaker Kesri Nath Tripathi's decision to recognise the split in the BSP and subsequent merger of the LBD with the Samajwadi Party.
LBD chief whip Yogesh Pratap Singh had moved a petition before the Speaker seeking disqualification of the five MLAs on the ground that their act of leaving the LBD and joining the BSP attracted provisions of the anti-defection act.
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