Mayawati expels former minister, legislator from BSP

LUCKNOW: BSP chief Mayawati on Tuesday expelled Awadhpal Singh Yadav, a former minister during previous BSP regime and former MLC Annapurna, wife of mafia Brijesh Singh from party on charges of anti party activities. BSP district coordinators of Varanasi and Etah, RK Kureel and Sunil Kumar, respectively, confirmed that the two have been expelled from party on directions of BSP chief Mayawati.
BSP sources said that Mayawati decision was aimed to give a message of getting her party cleaned of tainted leaders. Especially Yadav who was wanted in many cases. It was only last year that he surrendered before the Etah court last year along with his son, Ranjit Singh, an accused in eight cases. Yadav, the ex-Dairy and Animal Husbandry minister in the Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party government, was wanted in a triple murder case, attempt to rape and was booked under the Gangster Act. He had won from the Aliganj seat in Aligarh on a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) ticket in 2007.
Yadav was wanted in nine cases, ranging from attempted murder to attempted rape. The Lokayukta had also recommended action against Yadav for arm- twisting many government hospitals to give work to his favoured contractors.