Like Father…

alk of following in daddy’s footsteps. Former Rajya Sabha MP began with the Congress, moved to SP, then BSP, floated his own party—the Akhil Bharatiya Loktantrik Congress—before joining the BJP in 2018. Now, son Nitin, an SP MLA, has become deputy speaker in the Uttar Pradesh assembly, defeating his own party’s candidate! Nitin won an assembly seat on a BSP ticket in 2008, vaulted into the SP for the 2012 and 2017 state polls. In 2018, he supported BJP in the Rajya Sabha poll. The party has now returned the favour, with an eye on the Baniya vote.