New Delhi:Â Ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, former Samajwadi Party chief Swami Prasad Maurya on Thursday (February 22) launched his new party âRashtriya Shoshit Samaaj Partyâ at Talkatora Stadium in New Delhi days after quitting Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party.
The launch of the Rashtriya Shoshit Samaaj Party (RSSP) occurred days after Maurya resigned from his MLC seat and ended his affiliation with the Samajwadi Party.
Swami Prasad Maurya quits SP
Swami Prasad Maurya on Tuesday (Febrruary 20) resigned from the party’s major membership and the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council.
“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 stated in a letter to party chief Akhilesh Yadav.
He shared the letter on his social media handles. In a separate letter to the chairman of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council, Maurya stated, “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,” he stated.
Swami Prasad Maurya quits party publish
Earlier on February 13, Maurya had tendered his resignation from the place of common secretary of the Samajwadi party, accusing the management of discriminating towards him and never defending him over his controversial statements on the Ramcharitmanas and the Ayodhya temple consecration ceremony.
In his resignation letter, Maurya revealed that he had proposed the thought of a ‘Rath Yatra’ to Akhilesh Yadav, geared toward advocating for a caste-based census, defending reservation, addressing unemployment points, and safeguarding the Constitution. He emphasised that his intention was to bolster help for the party via such initiatives. He claimed Akhilesh had agreed to start the yatra following the pageant of Holi. However, regardless of the settlement, the ‘Rath Yatra’ initiative by no means materialised, he claimed.Â
Maurya additional expressed that he had been working tirelessly to broaden the party’s help base in his personal capability. However, when efforts had been made to re-engage people who had been swayed by the BJP, sure lower-ranking party members dismissed these efforts as merely ‘Maurya’s private endeavours’. He additionally identified the discrepancy in how his statements because the party’s nationwide common secretary had been handled as “personal opinions”, whereas statements from different common secretaries had been mechanically attributed to the party. This inconsistency shocked him, Maurya added.
Maurya in controversyÂ
It needs to be talked about right here that Maurya not too long ago garnered consideration for his contentious feedback relating to ‘Sanatan Dharma’, Hindutva, and the development of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya. His remarks in regards to the Ramcharitmanas additionally sparked appreciable controversy, drawing condemnation from numerous quarters, together with inside and out of doors the party. The Akhilesh Yadav-led party has subsequently distanced itself from Maurya’s statements, asking him to chorus from making remarks that would probably offend individuals’s spiritual sentiments.
Maurya had joined the Samajwadi Party leaving the BJP forward of the 2022 meeting polls, contesting the elections unsuccessfully from Fazilnagar. His daughter Sanghmitra is the BJP’s Badaun MP.
Maurya, thought-about a distinguished chief of the backward courses within the state, has been a five-time MLA. He has served as a minister within the Uttar Pradesh authorities, chief of the House and chief of opposition.
Having joined the BJP from the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), he served as labour minister within the Yogi Adityanath-led authorities between 2017 and 2022.
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