Ex-MP Yashveer Singh quits SP, joins BJP

Meerut | Wednesday | 13th March, 2019

Summary:

The latest to join the band of floor-crossers is former MP and SP’s senior leader, Yashveer Singh. This time around, Yashveer Singh was pitching for a ticket from SP. But the seat went to BSP in a seat-sharing agreement with SP, dashing his hopes of fighting the polls from Nagina on a SP ticket.Now, Yashveer hopes to get the BJP ticket from Nagina. Nagina reserved seat was won by BJP’s Yashwant Singh in the last elections.Yashveer Singh was elected MP from Nagina on 2009. He quit Samajwadi Party and joined BJP on Tuesday in Lucknow in the presence of Mahendranath Pandey, state president of BJP.Yashveer said, “I have resigned from SP and joined BJP..