For the first time in more than 110 years of Uttar Pradesh's Legislative Council, the country's oldest party Congress will have no representative as its only member in the State's Upper House is set to retire on Wednesday.
The Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council had come into existence in 1887 and Motilal Nehru was Congress' first MLC in the House in 1909.
Deepak Singh, the grand old party's only MLC, is among the 12 members whose term in the Legislative Council is coming to an end. Poet Zahid Hassan alias Wasim Barelvi of the Samajwadi Party (SP) is also among those whose tenure is ending on Wednesday.
