Lucknow, Aug. 15 -- After SP MLA from Chail Pooja Pal praised chief minister Yogi Adityanath for bringing the killers of her husband Raju Pal to justice, she was expelled for "anti-party" activities and indiscipline. The letter issued by SP chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday read, "You have been involved in anti-party activities, however, you didn't stop it even after being warned. The work done by you is against the party and serious indiscipline, hence you are being expelled from the party with immediate effect. At the same time, you are also being relieved from all the posts of the party." Pooja Pal was earlier in the news when she had cross-voted for the BJP candidate during the Rajya Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh in February 2024. In June, the SP had expelled three rebel MLAs but spared Pooja then. After her expulsion, Pooja Pal said to the media on the last day of the Monsoon session of the assembly, "Perhaps you could not hear the women in Prayagraj, who were even more worried than me. But I am their voice, I have been elected as an MLA and sent to the assembly. I am the voice of mothers and sisters who have lost their loved ones. They have sent me here. All people in Prayagraj, who were disturbed due to Atiq Ahmed, have been given justice by the CM, not just to Pooja Pal." "I have been expelled today. I stand by my statement even today. I became an MLA later but I am a victim woman first, a wife first...We could not stand the incident that occurred with us. They speak of PDA. I, too, belong to a backward community," she said....