Lucknow: The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) today revoked the suspension Dayashankar Singh after his wife Swati Singh won the UP assembly poll.
A day after Dayashankar Singh wife Swati Singh won the UP assembly polls; the BJP took back him in party who had allegedly made derogatory remarks against BSP chief Mayawati.
Swati Singh, who is also the head of the BJP women’s wing, had won the Assembly poll from Lucknow’s Sarojini Nagar seat.
Party spokesman Harish Chandra Srivastava said, “Suspension of Dayashankar Singh has been revoked by party state president Keshav Prasad Maurya.”
BJP revokes Dayashankar suspension after wife wins UP poll
An FIR was registered against him on July 20 last year under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and other provisions, after Singh had made derogatory remarks against Mayawati.
The complaint, which was lodged by national secretary of BSP Mewalal Gautam, alleged that Singh’s remarks in Mau on July 20 had hurt the feelings of BSP workers and the Dalit community across the country and were aimed at provoking them.
The issue was later taken up by Mayawati in the Lok Sabha also and later the BJP had suspended Singh, who was holding the post of vice president in BJP’s state unit.