Another shock for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh, which has to be polled, OBC boss Dara Singh Chauhan resigned from Yogi Adityanath’s cabinet on Wednesday. Chauhan is the sixth leader to leave the party within two days. However, two MLAs from Congress and the Samajwadi Party (SP) have joined the BJP.
- One day earlier than BJP leaders were brainstorming in Delhi In the elections in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, Swami Prasad Maurya, also a prominent leader of the other backward class, resigned from the State Cabinet.
- Another BJP MLA, Avtar Singh Bhadana, left the party on Wednesday and joined the Rashtriya Lok Dal, an ally of the SP.
- Three other BJP MLAs have announced their exit from the party, apparently with the support of Maurya.
- On Tuesday, the BJP MLAs Brajesh Prajapati from Tindwari, Roshan Lal Varma from Tilhar and Bhagwati Sagar from Bilhaur announced their resignation.
- However, two MLAs from Uttar Pradesh, Naresh Saini from Congress and Hari Om Yadav from the SP, joined the BJP on Wednesday, a welcome development for the ruling party as it copes with the sudden departure from its ranks.
Uttar Pradesh will vote on the election of 403 MLAs in seven phases between February 10th and March 7th. The vote will be counted on March 10th.
In 2017, the BJP made the story in Kanpur Rurals Bilhaur. Veteran politician Bhagwati Sagar led the party to victory and for the first time the BJP had a Legislative Assembly (MLA) member from the constituency.
Sagar, however, has since resigned – one of the many ministers and MLAs who left the ruling party in the state ahead of the high-octane parliamentary elections in Uttar Pradesh.
“During my work for the BJP, I have endeavored to do justice to those who have fallen victim to the caste system. I believe in the ideas of BR Ambedkar and Kashi Ram, ”Sagar told India Today, adding that these ideas were not pursued by the BJP government in the state.
“I will stay in Lucknow for a few days and follow the path of Swami Prasad Maurya,” he said. Maurya, who brought him to the BJP in 2017, has also resigned from Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s cabinet.
Bhagwati Sagar started Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and was MLA three times and Minister twice. In 1996 he won against Bilhaur for the first time with a BSP ticket. In 2007 he won again from Maharanipur in Jhansi on the BSP ticket.
In 2017, he won von Bilhaur by defeating BSP’s Kamlesh Chandra Divakar by a wide margin and scooping over a lakh of votes.
In the past, Bhagwati Sagar has attracted the Kanpur police on several occasions and has expressed dissatisfaction with the way the local administration is functioning in his constituency. When BJP President JP Nadda held a rally in Kanpur on November 23, Sagar decided not to sit down with his MLA colleagues.
However, some locals suggest that Bhagwati Prasad appeared to be losing the Brahmin vote due to some incidents in his constituency, and since it is a reserved seat for Scheduled Castes (SC), many believe it could be difficult for him to find him to keep his share of the vote.
(With input from Simer Chawla)
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