Lucknow: Samajwadi Get together (SP) chief and former minister in Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s cupboard, Dara Singh Chauhan, resigned from the Uttar Pradesh meeting Saturday, sparking speculations of the chief returning to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP).
A frontrunner from the opposite backward courses (OBC) group and MLA from Ghosi in East Uttar Pradesh (UP), Chauhan introduced he had submitted his resignation to UP Speaker Satish Mahana. The UP secretariat confirmed the event later.
Though he cited no cause for his choice, it comes lower than a yr earlier than the 2024 Basic Elections. Uttar Pradesh sends 80 representatives to the Parliament — the very best of any state in India.
Official sources on the secretariat confirmed to ThePrint that Chauhan’s resignation has been accepted. ThePrint reached the chief through calls and textual content messages for his remark. This report will probably be up to date if and when a response is obtained.
The event comes at a time when there are talks that Chauhan may return to the BJP fold. The Samajwadi Get together (SP), which Chauhan joined in January final yr — forward of the 2022 meeting elections within the state — has claimed that the BJP has promised the chief a celebration ticket for the approaching Basic Elections.
“There isn’t any query of resigning from the social gathering now as he has had a settlement with the BJP. This fashion (of politics) isn’t right. Akhilesh Yadav ji made him an MLA and now, he’s more likely to get a Lok Sabha ticket from the BJP,” SP’s chief spokesperson Rajendra Chowdhary advised ThePrint when requested if Chauhan had give up the social gathering as nicely.
The BJP, nevertheless, has denied that he had approached them.
“We’re but to get a proposal from him for becoming a member of the BJP however he’s welcome. Anybody who needs to make PM Narendra Modi the prime minister for the third time in 2024 is welcome,” Uttar Pradesh’s BJP spokesperson Rakesh Tripathi advised ThePrint.
In the meantime, quickly after his resignation, Chauhan’s picture with Union Residence Minister Amit Shah in Delhi additionally went viral on Twitter.
Ghosi Lok Sabha seat is presently held by Bahujan Samaj Get together’s Atul Rai and is without doubt one of the 14 seats that presently have non-BJP parliamentarians. BJP needs to safe all 80 seats within the subsequent elections and is presently laying the groundwork for the seats it misplaced in 2019.
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Who’s Dara Singh Chauhan?
After having served as forest minister in Yogi Adityanath’s cupboard, Chauhan, together with two different cupboard ministers — Swami Prasad Maurya and Dharam Singh Saini — joined the BJP simply forward of final yr’s meeting elections in Uttar Pradesh.
Regardless of having witnessed a detailed battle with BJP’s Vijay Rajbhar within the UP meeting elections final yr, Chauhan was the one one in all three BJP turncoats to have managed to retain their seats.
A frontrunner who started his political profession with the Bahujan Samaj Get together, Chauhan received his first Lok Sabha election from Ghosi in 2009. In 2015, he switched his loyalties to the BJP and received the 2017 meeting elections from Madhuban.
(Edited by Uttara Ramaswamy)
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