Rebel Congress MLA Aditi Singh Joins BJP along with BSPs Vandana Singh

Lucknow: Aditi Singh, rebel Congress from Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh, has joined the BJP. Singh, along with former BSP MLA Vandana Singh were inducted into the party by UP BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh on Wednesday. Rebel MLA, Singh has been vocal of the Congress party and its leadership.

BSP MLA Vandana Singh, Congress MLA from Rae Bareli are considered very popular and influential in their areas. There was lot of drama going on in past several days. Aditi SIngh kept on questioning the leadership of the party. At the same time, Aditi Singh was accused by Congress of not following the orders especially last year.

Singh (34) was first elected to the UP Legislative Assembly in 2017. She is the daughter of five-time MLA late Akhilesh Singh.While Aditi Singh was elected to the Assembly as a Congress MLA, she has on a number of occasions voiced support of the BJP government in the state while criticising her own party colleagues.

Just last week, Singh lashed out at Congress general secretary in charge of UP – Priyanka Gandhi Vadra – over the latter’s reaction to the central government’s decision to repeal the three farm laws.

In fact, Singh has voted in favour of the BJP in the UP Legislative Assembly on more than one occasion.

The Congress suspended Aditi Singh from the party’s women’s wing in May of last year after the first-time MLA slammed her party for arranging 1,000 buses for migrants stranded in parts of Uttar Pradesh owing to the Covid-19 lockdown.

Taking a note for upcoming 2022 election s in UP, influential Congress leaders joining BJP is huge setback for Congress. 

Aditi Singh has also, in contrast to her party, supported the BJP-led central government on a number of issues, including the abrogation of Article 370.

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