Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati is working to strengthen her party ahead of the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. She has reinducted several senior leaders who were previously expelled, including former national vice-president Jai Prakash Singh and former Rajya Sabha MP Ashok Siddharth. Singh was expelled in 2018 for controversial remarks about Rahul Gandhi and Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a party meeting. Siddharth was removed in February this year over anti-party activities. The BSP has struggled politically in recent years, winning only one seat in the 2022 UP Assembly polls and failing to secure any seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Mayawati has also revived the party's Muslim outreach initiative and declared the BSP will contest the upcoming state elections independently without forming alliances. These moves aim to rebuild the party's electoral strength.
BSP Brings Back Expelled Leaders to Rebuild Party Structure
Mayawati has reinducted multiple senior leaders who were expelled over the past year. Jai Prakash Singh, expelled in July 2018 for controversial statements, was brought back after meeting Mayawati on November 7 in Delhi. He has been appointed in-charge for West Bengal and Odisha. Ashok Siddharth, expelled in February, was reinstated in September and made central coordinator for Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, and Gujarat. Nitin Singh, also expelled in February for anti-party activities, now handles party affairs in Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh. Party sources explain these leaders have decades of experience and understand the BSP's mission, making them valuable for the party's revival efforts before the state elections.
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