The Party with a Selective Difference

The BJP has embraced UP’s gangster-turned-politician DP Yadav

The BJP has embraced UP’s gangster-turned-politician DP Yadav

In a development that is out of sync with the BJP’s claim of clean politics, the party has embraced UP’s gangster-turned-politician DP Yadav. On a day Modi was telling his audience in the US about his plans to reform the way politics is practised in India, Yadav travelled with BJP President Amit Shah to poll-bound Haryana to attend campaign rallies.

Yadav had made an attempt to join the saffron camp 10 years ago, but public outrage forced the BJP to cancel his membership on the very day it was granted by then party president Venkaiah Naidu.

In an interaction with the media, Yadav has said that the current BJP president is his ‘friend’ and that he would be campaigning actively for the party’s candidates in Haryana. Yadav, according to the UP Police, is a ‘B class’ history-sheeter—someone who cannot be reformed. The BJP will have a lot of explaining to do.

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