A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Gorakhpur was given a one-and-a-half year prison sentence for blocking a road in 2008 in protest of the arrest of Akhilesh and Shivpal Yadav, the leaders of the Samajwadi Party.
The BJP leader, who has been identified as Kamlesh Paswan, was a member of Samajwadi Party at the time of the incident. Paswan currently holds the Bansgaon seat for the BJP in Gorakhpur.
The BJP leader would not have been a member of parliament if the sentence had been two years as opposed to one and a half.
The incident began in January 2008 when Paswan took part in a demonstration against the detention of Akhilesh Yadav, the leader of the Samajwadi Party, and his uncle Shivpal Yadav.
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