Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo and former CM Mayawati has suffered another major setback ahead of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. Sadabad MLA Ramveer Upadhyay, who served as a minister in the BSP government, has resigned from the party's membership. With this, speculations of Upadhyay joining the Samajwadi Party (SP) or Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have intensified.

Upadhyay, who is one of the top Brahmin leaders of BSP, withdrew from the party citing the party's deviating from its principles in his resignation to party chief Mayawati. In his resignation, he said that he has been an active member of BSP for the last 25 years and had also alerted the high command for the party's ever-declining public support. He said the party's high command did not review it.

After Upadhyay's resignation, it is believed that he too may join the SP after Swami Prasad Maurya, who quit the BJP, joined the SP. However, Upadhyaya was not present among the MLAs who reached the SP headquarters under Swamy's leadership. After that, speculations have started about him turning to the BJP. Upadhyay himself has not said anything about his political future.

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