Ritesh Pandey, the MP for the Ambedkar Nagar constituency in Uttar Pradesh, has resigned from the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on February 25, ahead of the Lok Sabha election.
He was inducted into the BJP in the presence of U.P.’s Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak, State party chief Bhupendra Singh, party general secretary Tarun Chugh, and the BJP’s election in-charge for U.P. Baijayant Panda.
In his resignation letter addressed to BSP president Mayawati, which he also posted on X, Mr. Pandey said that he had not been called to party meetings “for a long time”, nor had the leadership of the party spoken to him.
