Maurya convoy attacked; BJP MP daughter blames party

Swami Prasad Maurya, a former minister in the Yogi Adityanath-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government who recently switched over to the Samajwadi Party (SP), on Tuesday alleged that his convoy was attacked by BJP workers during a roadshow in Kushinagar.

Sanghmitra Maurya, his daughter and BJP MP, also alleged that she was stopped by BJP workers while she was on her way to see her father after receiving the news of the attack.

According to the reports, BJP and SP workers clashed in Kushinagar on Tuesday evening, the last day of campaigning for the sixth phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, as the convoy of Maurya and BJP’s Fazilnagar candidate Surendra Singh Kushwaha came face-to-face.