Updated On: 20 May, 2019 12:26 PM IST | Lucknow | mid-day online desk
Rajbhar has often been making controversial statements against the saffron party, the latest being during the Lok Sabha election campaign when he said that BJP members should be "thrashed" with shoes

Pic courtesy/Twitter/Yogi Adityanath
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday recommended to the governor immediate sacking of SBSP leader Om Prakash Rajbhar from his cabinet for his outbursts against senior NDA partner BJP. Governor Ram Naik accepted the recommendation and relieved Rajbhar from his post of Backward Class Welfare and Divyangjan Empowerment Minister, an official spokesperson said.
UP CM Office says "CM has requested Governor to dismiss Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party chief OM Prakash Rajbhar from UP cabinet with immediate effect." Rajbhar, a minister for backward class welfare&'divyangjan' empowerment, had earlier resigned from cabinet but it wasn't accepted pic.twitter.com/22BJ7D41N5