Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh's Yogi cabinet minister Swami Prasad Maurya has resigned from his post on Tuesday. He has sent his resignation to state governor Anandiben Patel. Before the 2017 assembly elections, Swami Prasad Maurya quit the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and joined the BJP and has now left the BJP and joined the SP before the 2022 assembly elections.

Born in the Pratapgarh district of the state, Minister Swami Prasad Maurya has graduated in law from Allahabad University and has done his MA. In 1980, he actively entered the state. He became a member of the State Working Committee of Allahabad Yuva Lok Dal and held the post of General Secretary from June 1981 to 1989. He was then chief secretary of Uttar Pradesh Lok Dal from 1989 to 1991. Maurya then took over as general secretary of the UP Janata Dal from 1991 to 1995. In 1996, Swami Prasad Maurya suppressed the BSP and became the state general secretary. He contested the assembly elections from Dalmau, Rae Bareli on the BSP ticket and became MLA four times. The minister won the Padaruna assembly by-election in 2009 and defeated the mother of Union minister RPN Singh. From May 2002 to August 2003, he was given the status of a minister and from August 2003 to September 2003, he was also the Leader of the Opposition in the UP Assembly.

Maurya got the opportunity to hold the post of Minister from 2007 to 2009. He was appointed the state president of BSP in January 2008. But after the 2012 setback, BSP supremo Mayawati removed him from the post of state president and made him the leader of the opposition and replaced him with Ram Achal Rajbhar as the state president. Then in 2016, he rebelled against the BSP and joined the BJP and became a minister in the Yogi government. Now that the assembly elections are coming again, Maurya has once again retaliated and taken over the SP.

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