NRP Desk
Lucknow: Hours after she heaped praises on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for “keeping his word and reducing mafia like Atiq Ahmed to dust”, Chail MLA Pooja Pal was sacked by the Samajwadi Party for “anti-party activities and serious indiscipline”. “You have carried out anti-party activities and, even after being warned, you did not stop these activities, due to which the party has suffered a lot. The work done by you is anti-party and a serious act of indiscipline. Hence, you are expelled from Samajwadi Party with immediate effect,” the expulsion letter, handed to Pal on the Assembly premises, read. SP sources said that while the action against her may have followed her remarks praising Adityanath, Pal had been “sulking” for a while and even met Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to the Maha Kumbh Mela earlier this year. “She is believed to have also extended support to the BJP candidate in the Phulpur Assembly by poll last year, which the SP lost,” a source said. Another SP MLA expressed “no surprise” at her remarks. Speaking on the floor of the Assembly, during its marathon 24-hour sitting over Wednesday and Thursday, Pal said: “I lost my husband, who was a member of this House. The entire House knows how my husband was killed and who killed him. I want to thank the CM, who saw my silent tears, which were overlooked by others for ages. He delivered justice to me in a true manner.” In 2023, Ahmed and his brother Ashraf were shot dead while on their way to a medical check-up under police custody, outside a hospital in Prayagraj.
