UP Deputy CM Dinesh Sharma to be BJP leader in Legislative Council

Lucknow: Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma will be Bharatiya Janata Party's Leader of House in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council.

Expelled BSP leader Naseemudin Siddqui has been replaced by Sunil Kumar Chittaud by BSP as its leader in in the upper house, according to Principal Secretary of the Legislative Council, Mohan Yadav.

Ahmad Hasan will be SP leader in the council, while Yagya Dutt Sharma will be BJP's deputy leader, he said.