Chinmayanand no longer a BJP member: party spokesperson

Former Union Minister Chinamayanand is not a member of BJP, the saffron party announced on Wednesday. This comes after the BJP leader was arrested for allegedly raping a law student. "He is not a member of the BJP,” the party’s U.P. spokesperson Harishchandra Srivastava told media reporters.

The law student, who studied in the college run by Chinmayanand, went missing on August 24 after a video of her alleging that a person from 'Sant Samaj' had threatened to kill her and her parents went viral on the social media.