Imran Masood Joins BSP Months After Switching To Samajwadi Party

Welcoming him into the party fold, BSP supremo Mayawati said the Muslim community is convinced that it is the BSP and not the SP that can get rid of the "hateful and cruel politics of the BJP".

Masood had joined the SP in January before the 2022 assembly elections.

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New Delhi: Nine months after he left the Congress to join the Samajwadi Party, Imran Masood on Wednesday switched to the Bahujan Samaj Party.

Welcoming him into the party fold, BSP supremo Mayawati said the Muslim community is convinced that it is the BSP and not the SP that can get rid of the "hateful and cruel politics of the BJP".

Masood had joined the SP in January before the 2022 assembly elections.

The leader, who contested the 2014 Lok Sabha polls from Saharanpur on a Congress ticket, had courted controversy over his hate speech in which he allegedly threatened to "chop" Narendra Modi "into pieces".

"Imran Masood is a well-known name in the politics of Uttar Pradesh and especially Western UP. He met me today along with his close associates. He has left the Samajwadi Party and has promised to work with full force and good intentions in the BSP. He is warmly welcomed," Mayawati said in a series of tweets in Hindi.

1. उत्तर प्रदेश व ख़ासकर पश्चिमी यूपी की राजनीति में श्री इमरान मसूद एक जाना-पहचाना नाम है, जिन्होंने आज अपने करीबी सहयोगियों के साथ मुझसे मुलाकात की और वे समाजवादी पार्टी छोड़कर, अच्छी नीयत व पूरी दमदारी से काम करने के वादे के साथ, बीएसपी में शामिल हो गए, जिसका तहेदिल से स्वागत।

— Mayawati (@Mayawati) October 19, 2022

"At the same time, seeing his tremendous zeal and enthusiasm to work in the party, he has been given a special responsibility and made the convener of the BSP in western UP to strengthen the party at every level and especially bring the minority community with the party," the former chief minister said.

2. साथ ही, पार्टी में काम करने के इनके जबर्दस्त जोश व उत्साह को देखकर आज ही उन्हें पश्चिमी यूपी बीएसपी का संयोजक बनाकर वहाँ पार्टी को हर स्तर पर मज़बूत बनाने व ख़ासकर अक़लीयत समाज को पार्टी से जोड़ने की भी विशेष ज़ि़म्मेदारी सौंपी गई।

— Mayawati (@Mayawati) October 19, 2022

Masood and others joining the BSP ''before the local body elections is a good sign for the politics of UP in the sense that the Muslim community is also convinced that it the BSP and not the SP that is needed to get rid of the hateful and cruel politics of the BJP," Mayawati said.

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