LUCKNOW, Oct. 3 -- Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) president Om Prakash Rajbhar, who is also a minister in the Uttar Pradesh government, said on Friday that two of his party MLAs are most likely to cross-vote in the upcoming election to 10 Rajya Sabha seats-something that will impact the ruling BJP's strategy of winning an eighth seat and will strengthen the SP's hope of gathering the extra numbers needed to secure a third seat.

Speaking to a private news channel at his house here, Rajbhar said Abbas Ansari (Mau Sadar seat) and Jagdish Narayan Rai (Jaunpur's Zafrabad seat) "are their (SP) people". He noted that although the two contested and won the 2022 UP assembly polls on SBSP tickets, they originally belonged to the SP camp. "T...