'No More Room,' Says Akhilesh Yadav After Wave of BJP Defections

The Samajwadi Party chief was speaking a day after two former BJP ministers in the Yogi Cabinet joined his party.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav took a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday, 15 January, after eight MLAs from the ruling party and its allies in Uttar Pradesh joined his party recently, ahead of the state Assembly elections.

Yadav told reporters in Lucknow that his party had no more room for BJP MLAs or ministers, according to NDTV.

Two former ministers in Yogi Adityanath's Cabinet, Swami Prasad Maurya and Dharam Singh Saini, along with five MLAs from the BJP and one from the Apna Dal, joined the Samajwadi Party over the last few days. All of them are prominent OBC leaders.