This has happened with Congress now, but the Samajwadi Party has faced this earlier, said Akhilesh Yadav, shining a spotlight on the disqualification of his party MP Azam Khan and his MLA son Abdullah Azam. "If the same action is taken against the BJP leaders, many will lose their membership," said Mr Yadav, the principal opposition leader in UP. Rahul Gandhi has been disqualified from the Lok Sabha because of his conviction in a 2019 criminal defamation case.