Lucknow, June 23 -- Following the Samajwadi Party's expulsion of three MLAs who supported the BJP in the Rajya Sabha elections, Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak on Monday criticised the SP for its internal issues and alleged mistreatment of its own workers.

Pathak said the SP's leadership is under tension, with its ground support weakening due to past actions.

Speaking to the reporters, Brajesh Pathak said, "It is the cultural ideology of the BJP that we go ahead by bringing everyone together. But the SP levels different allegations and unleashes atrocities on its own workers...SP is completely sidelined, and leadership is tense; their ground is slipping away. People have still not forgotten the hooliganism and anarchy...