Lucknow. Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) state president Masood Ahmed has resigned from the party accusing him of selling tickets to candidates for the recently concluded elections.
The RLD won eight of the nearly three dozen seats it contested in alliance with the Samajwadi Party. The state unit of the party has already been dissolved since the election results were declared on March 10.
Masood Ahmed also alleged that the alliance failed to grab power from the BJP due to the mistakes of both RLD chief Jayant Choudhary and SP president Akhilesh Yadav.
In a letter to Jayant Choudhary, Ahmed alleged that tickets were given to ineligible candidates, Muslims and Dalits were sidelined. He also alleged that the RLD-SP alliance failed to come to power due to “internal dictatorship”.
He further wrote in the letter that he had warned against the unnecessary statements of Om Prakash Rajbhar which polarize the voters. “Both the leaders (Chowdhary and Akhilesh) did not pay heed to my words.”
Masood Ahmed, who took over as RLD UP chief in 2017, sought answers from Choudhary and Akhilesh for questions raised by them.
RLD spokesperson Anil Dubey, however, said, “All the allegations leveled by Masood Ahmed are baseless. Also, there is no point in his resignation when the party unit is already dissolved.”
—AnyTV News
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