Suspended BSP MP Danish Ali joins Congress

MP Danish Ali, who was suspended by the Bahujan Samaj Occasion in December, joined the Congress on Wednesday forward of the Lok Sabha elections.

“The state of this nation isn’t hidden from anyone,” Ali stated at a press convention on Wednesday. “At this time there’s a energy that desires to divide the nation on one facet and on the opposite facet there’s a energy that desires to offer justice to the nation’s poor, marginalised individuals. The selection is obvious.”

He stated that he joined the Congress as a result of he was unable to battle the divisive forces with the identical power that he needed to in his earlier occasion.

Ali, who represents the Amroha constituency in Uttar Pradesh, was suspended by the Bahujan Samaj Occasion for alleged anti-party actions. The occasion had, nonetheless, not elaborated primarily based on what exercise it took the motion.

Ali’s suspension got here at a time when he was looking for motion in opposition to Bharatiya Janata Occasion legislator Ramesh Bidhuri, who had used communal slurs in opposition to him in Parliament in September.

Bidhuri, an MP from South Delhi, made the communal remarks on September 21 throughout a debate within the Lok Sabha on the success of India’s Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission. Bidhuri had referred to as Ali a “mullah terrorist”, “pimp” and “katwa”, a slur used for circumcised Muslims.

Quickly after this incident, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi met with Ali to precise his solidarity with the legislator.

Ali had additionally joined the Congress’ Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Manipur’s Imphal in January.

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