RLD seeks removal of BJP ex-MLA Saini’s name from voters’ list

MEERUT : Rashtriya Lok Dal’s Muzaffarnagar president Sandeep Malik has demanded that the name of BJP’s disqualified MLA Vikram Saini be removed from the voters’ list after the Allahabad high court rejected his petition for suspension of his conviction in a Muzaffarnagar riot case of 2013.

Malik wrote a letter to the district magistrate of Muzaffarnagar, who is also the district’s returning officer, on Thursday, demanding to remove Saini’s name from the voters’ list and to stop him from campaigning in the Khatauli bypoll. The BJP fielded Saini’s wife Rajkumari Saini in Khatauli after Vikram Saini was convicted by a court in a Muzaffarnagar riot case of 2013. Saini filed a petition in Allahabad HC for suspension of his conviction but the HC rejected his appeal on Wednesday. Mentioning the high court’s decision, Malik also demanded that Saini be stopped from campaigning in favour of his wife because he had been accused of disturbing communal harmony and was doing it again to ensure victory of his wife. Malik further said that he could go to any extend to vitiate the peaceful atmosphere in the constituency, so he should be be stopped from campaigning. The RLD- SP alliance has fielded Madan Bhaiya in Khatauli. BJP leader Abhishek Gurjar, who quit the RLD after Madan Bhaiya was fielded, said that the RLD was afraid. He said that removal of name from the voters’ list was a legal process and the law would take its own course if the issue had any legal sanctity.