RLD Jolted As State Chief Masood Ahmad Resigns, Levels Serious Charges Against Jayant-Akhilesh

Lucknow, March 19 (TNA) The Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) was jolted on Saturday as its Uttar Pradesh chief Dr Masood Ahmad quit the party and levelled serious allegations against the aprty chief Jayant Chaudhary and also the ally - Samajwadi Party (SP).

Ahmad claimed that tickets were being sold by the top leadership and that in the run up to the state assembly polls, Dalits and Muslims were sidelined.

He also wrote to Jayant citing how he had joined the party in 2015-2016 on the call of his father Chaudhary Ajit Singh and rued that despite his repeated reminders and warnings, Bhim Army Chief Chandrashekhar Azad was humiliated and due to which Dalit votes drifted from the alliance in favour of BJP and damaged the SP-RLD alliance.

Masood Ahmad further alleged that both SP Chief Akhilesh Yadav and RLD Chief Jayant Chaudhary damaged the organisation by adopting a ‘supremo culture’, leading to the poor utilization of SP and RLD leaders in the recently concluded UP Assembly elections.