Swami Prasad Maurya introduced his resignation from Yogi Adityanath’s cupboard right now.
Lucknow:
In a significant setback for the BJP weeks forward of the state meeting elections in Uttar Pradesh, a key minister together with three MLAs has stop the get together. Swami Prasad Maurya, a prime UP minister, and influential backward caste chief, has joined the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Get together.
- Swami Prasad Maurya, UP’s Minister of labour, employment & coordination, resigned from Yogi Adityanath’s cupboard right now and posted his resignation letter on the microblogging web site Twitter. “Regardless of a divergent ideology, I labored with dedication within the Yogi Adityanath cupboard. However due to the grave oppression of Dalits, OBCs, farmers, unemployed and small businessmen, I’m resigning,” he mentioned.
- Shortly after his resignation, Mr Maurya met Samajwadi Get together chief Akhilesh Yadav. Mr Yadav tweeted {a photograph} with Mr Maurya, welcoming him and his supporters to the Samajwadi Get together. “I warmly welcome Swami Prasad Maurya, a pacesetter who fights for social justice and equality, and all his supporters. There can be a revolution in social justice. Change is coming in 2022,” Mr Yadav tweeted in Hindi.
- Mr Maurya, a veteran politician and five-term MLA, had stop the Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Get together (BSP) in 2016, accusing the get together of operating a “cash for ticket” syndicate. Ms Mayawati had denied the allegations. Mr Maurya then shaped his personal organisation referred to as Loktantrik Bahujan Manch and was appointed a cupboard minister in Yogi Adityanath’s authorities in 2017.
- Swami Prasad Maurya’s daughter Sanghmitra Maurya is a BJP MP from Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun.
- Mr Maurya is a strong OBC (Different Backward Class) chief representing the Padrauna constituency in japanese Uttar Pradesh. In a warning to the BJP, he informed reporters, “What impression my exit may have on the BJP can be apparent after the 2022 meeting election.”