New Delhi: After the days of tension and right in front of the Uttar Pradesh (top) Assembly election next month, BJP MLA from Bidhuna in the state of Vinay Shakya finally resigned from a party on Thursday.
However, his daughter Riya Shakya accused her father forced to stop by her uncle and grandmother.
Speaking exclusively to TOI and in detail about family disputes, which finally peaked in his father’s resignation from BJP, said Riya, “My uncle (Devesh Shakya) has placed my grandmother at the front and made my father resign.
Just imagine why someone, Even unable to hold elections because he is medically not feasible, resigning from a party? “Vinay Shakya suffered a brain stroke on May 1, 2018 and underwent surgery later.
Since then, he hasn’t maintained well.
His daughter said Vinay Shakya could not think, understand or write correctly.
Although it has not been confirmed, there is rumors that Vinay can join the Akhilesh Yadav-LED Party Jamajwadi (SP).
Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) Spokesman Rohit Agarwal posted Shakya’s resignation letter on the Koo Micro-Blogging site and said: “Swami Prasad Maurya, fellow BJP Mla Vinay Shakya resigned.
Will join sp.” Jayant Chaudhary-LED RLD and SP has sewed the alliance for upcoming assembly selection.
Riya said Vinay Shakya was considered close to Maurya and had joined BJP together with him in front of the 2017 assembly election.
He was Mla before in 2002 and MLC in 2009 – both on BSP tickets.
However, he loudly denied that his father would join SP.
“In 25 years of his political career, my father hated the Jamajwadi Party and always opposed it.
He was even physically attacked by SP round once.
People know about it.
If he was fine, he would never stop from BJP and of course not Join SP, “he said.
Speaking of family struggles, with a lump in the throat and his voice choked, Riya said he was, his mother and his younger brother was not allowed to meet his father.
“We hold our grandmother at high prices.
We can’t oppose it.
My uncle has taken an undue advantage with this fact.
He has looked after my grandmother at the front lines and has made a decision on behalf of my father,” he said.
Riya said she met her father for the first time in three years since 2019 on December 11 around midnight at Etawah.
“The meeting was in front of the police for four to five minutes.
I asked my father to come with us to Bidhuna.
He is also ready to join us.
But my uncle brought my grandmother and both of them said something to my father who lived behind with They, “he said.
Riya said she had searched for a ticket from the BJP leadership from Bidhuna.
“But I will work for BJP even if I don’t get a ticket,” he said.
Asked whether Bidhuna would watch the contest between Uncle and nephews if he got a BJP ticket and Devesh Shakya contested on SP tickets, Riya said, “I don’t want to comment on this.”