Swami Prasad Maurya on Tuesday quit the primary membership of the Samajwadi Party and also resigned from the post of Member of Legislative Council in the Uttar Pradesh assembly.
“I got an opportunity to work with you. But after our talks on February 12 and my resignation (as national general secretary) on February 13, no initiative of any talks with me was taken due to which I am resigning from the primary membership of the party,” Maurya said in his resignation letter to party chief Akhilesh Yadav.
Further, in a separate letter to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council chairman, Maurya said, “I was elected as a Samajwadi Party member in the legislative council. As I have resigned from the primary membership of the party, I am also resigning as MLC (member of legislative council) on the basis of morality.”
Maurya, on February 13, had resigned as the party’s national general secretary, saying that he would continue to work for SP without any post.
While resigning from the national general secretary post, Maurya accused the leadership of discriminating against him and not defending him over his remarks.
SP national secretary Ram Govind Chaudhary, on Wednesday, wrote a letter to the party president Akhilesh Yadav and requested him to not accept the resignation as he was opposing the “poison” being spread by RSS and BJP.
“Under your successful leadership, every worker and leader of Samajwadi Party is struggling to reduce the effect of this poison of communalism and hypocrisy. Party’s national general secretary Shri Swami Prasad Maurya is also strongly opposing this poison of BJP and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh due to which he is on the target of BJP and Sangh,” Chaudhary said in his letter to Yadav.
He noted that Maurya comes from a backward community and his “fighting instinct” is the reason for him having a special place in this society.
Meanwhile, former SP ally Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP) president Om Prakash Rajbhar had told PTI, “This is just a drama. Instead of resigning from the party’s post, he should have resigned from the post of MLC. He became an MLC only because of the Samajwadi Party. He has resigned from party’s national general secretary post but will remain an MLC. This is a drama.”
A member of the state legislative council from the SP, Maurya had moved from the Bharatiya Janata Party to the Samajwadi Party before the 2022 polls and unsuccessfully contested the assembly polls from Fazilnagar.
SWAMI PRASAD MAURYA’S OWN PARTY?
Following his resignation, it is being said that Maurya will not join any new party now.
Swami Prasad Maurya can announce his new party on February 22 at Delhi’s Talkatora Stadium. Reportedly, the name of Maurya’s new party will be Rashtriya Shoshit Samaj Party.
The former SP leader has been a five-time MLA and also a cabinet minister in the first term of Mayawati and Yogi Adityanath government.
(With PTI inputs)
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