In his resignation letter to the party, Shakya wrote, “Swami Prasad Maurya is the voice of the downtrodden and he is our leader. I am with him.”
This development comes days after Swami Prasad Maurya resigned from the Yogi Adityanath cabinet. He will join the Samajwadi Party on January 14.
“I will be joining the Samajwadi Party on January 14. I have not received calls from any small or big politician. If they were cautious on time and worked on public issues, then BJP would not have faced this,” Maurya told ANI on Wednesday.
Maurya, after resigning from the Yogi Adityanath-led cabinet on Tuesday, had alleged “gross neglect” by the BJP towards Dalits, backward classes, farmers, unemployed youth and small traders.
Earlier today, Dr Mukesh Verma, MLA from Shikohabad assembly constituency in UP’s Firozabad, esigned from the primary membership of the party alleging ‘lack of respect’ by the government towards backward classes and Dalits.
On Wednesday, Dara Singh Chauhan, who was the environment and forest minister in the Yogi Adityanath cabinet, also resigned from the BJP. Chauhan had defected to BJP from BSP in 2015.
