Thakur votes make Raja Bhaiyya indispensable for SP

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi's strong backing for the Supreme Court-led reforms of the criminalisation of politics seems to have little impact on his own party's alliance partners. Eight months after he was forced to resign over his alleged involvement in the murder of a senior cop, controversial Uttar Pradesh politician Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiyya was sworn in as a minister in the Akhilesh Yadav government on Friday morning.

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