Shivpal Singh Yadav, president of the Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party Lohia (PSPL), has said that he is ready to seek re-election from his Jaswantnagar assembly seat in Uttar Pradesh if he is disqualified from the assembly.
The Samajwadi Party (SP) filed a petition before the Speaker last week seeking disqualification of Yadav’s membership from the state assembly under anti-defection law.
“I had already resigned from the Samajwadi Party when I floated the PSPL. I am not worried about disqualification because I will seek re-election from my own Jaswantnagar constituency and the SP can field anyone they want to,” he said.
Replying to a question, Yadav said that if he contests a by-election in event of his disqualification, Mulayam Singh Yadav should campaign for him. “I had campaigned for Netaji despite my differences with SP and he should also reciprocate,” Yadav said.