Big jolt to BJP: UP Minister joins Samajwadi party after quitting BJP

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• Jan 11, 2022 | moderator

Lucknow: Just weeks away from the impending assembly polls 2022, the BJP has been rocked by a series of jolts in the form of leaders exiting the party. After two BJP leaders from Goa made an exit from the party yesterday, now Uttar Pradesh BJP bastion faces another big name making its journey towards the Samajwadi party.

State minister and senior party leader Swami Prasad Maurya resigned from the Yogi Adityanath-led cabinet today. “I resign from the Yogi cabinet of Uttar Pradesh due to the grossly neglectful attitude towards Dalits, backwards, farmers, unemployed youth and small, and medium businessmen,” the senior party leader tweeted along with his resignation letter.

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Maurya joined Samajwadi party along with other leaders of the BJP today. The Grand National party has been leading a crusade with multitudes of development projects launched in Uttar Pradesh in the last few weeks. From hurling political comments to taking jibes on the opposition, the BJP has been leading a staunch campaign to win the assembly polls 2022.

Welcoming Maurya to the party, Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav tweeted, “Warm welcome and greetings to popular leader Swami Prasad Maurya Ji, who fought for social justice and equality and all the other leaders, workers and supporters who came with him in SP! There will be a revolution of social justice. There will be change in 22.”

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A day ago, two prominent BJP leaders from Goa, Pravin Zantye and Michael Lobo quit the party, calling the BJP party as losing its ‘ideologies’. While stakes are high for BJP in Goa and Uttar Pradesh, the sudden exit of prominent faces from the party might push BJP to strongly strategize their poll preparedness.