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Swami Prasad Maurya resigns from Yogi Adityanath Cabinet, joins SP

Uttar Pradesh Labour Minister and prominent OBC leader Swami Prasad Maurya has resigned from the Yogi Adityanath cabinet, just days after the Election Commission announced Assembly elections for the State.

Swami Prasad Maurya at his residence in Lucknow on January 11, 2022 after resigning as Minister in the Yogi Adityanath Cabinet.

Maurya represents Padrauna in the State Assembly, while his daughter Sanghamitra is the BJP MP from Badaun. In his resignation letter to Governor Anandiben Patel, Maurya claimed that OBCs, Dalits, and youth were being neglected by the Uttar Pradesh government. He also said despite “all ideological differences” with the the BJP, he chose to work with the government.

Soon after Maurya submitted his resignation letter, he was welcomed into the Samajwadi Party by party president Akhilesh Yadav but was yet to formally announce his membership of the SP. A decision on the party would be taken soon, he said.

As many as four BJP leaders have recently switched to the SP — Radha Krishna Sharma, Madhuri Verma, Rakesh Rathore, and Shashank Tripathi.