{"id":502417,"date":"2024-02-20T16:26:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T10:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=502417"},"modified":"2024-02-20T16:28:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T10:58:28","slug":"swami-prasad-maurya-samajwadi-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/swami-prasad-maurya-samajwadi-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Samajwadi Party leader Swami Prasad Maurya resigns from party, also quits as member of State Legislative Council"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Swami Prasad Maurya resigned from the party on Tuesday and also quit as a member of the state legislative council. After announcing his exit from the party he said he believes in clean politics. He said he has had ideological differences with Akhilesh Yadav and Samajwadi Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ex-SP leader accused Akhilesh Yadav of going against socialist ideology. He added he had experience of working with Mulayam Singh Yadav as well and said Yadav was a staunch socialist leader. He said those who are carrying forward his legacy are not able to follow his ideology. He said the situation is unfortunate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maurya shared his resignation letter on social media. He wrote a separate letter to the Chairman of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council. He said he was elected as a Samajwadi Party member in the legislative council. He said as he has resigned from the primary membership of the party, he is also resigning as MLC (member of legislative council) based on morality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WATCH<\/a> | After resigning from the Samajwadi Party (SP), Swami Prasad Maurya says, &quot;I believe in clean politics&#8230;The reason behind parting ways is ideological differences. I have had ideological differences with Akhilesh Yadav and Samajwadi Party (SP)&#8230;I saw Akhilesh Yadav, he\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S0c1t0h3yL\">https:\/\/t.co\/S0c1t0h3yL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oM2H96b2ER\">pic.twitter.com\/oM2H96b2ER<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1759849829490999446?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Maurya resigned as the party\u2019s general secretary on February 13. He even accused the Samajwadi Party leadership of discriminating against him and not defending him over his controversial statements on Ramcharitamanas and the Ayodhya Temple Pran Pratishtha event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision to quit from Samajwadi Party comes after two years he dumped the ruling BJP for Samajwadi Party (SP). The development came amid reports that Maurya is planning to launch his own party. He has called a meeting with his followers in Delhi on Feb 22 to finalize his next move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to reports during a recent meeting Maurya\u2019s core supporters had mooted the idea to launch an independent political outfit. In the same meeting a proposal was made to name the new political outfit as Rashtriya Shoshit Samaj Dal. But after the meeting when Swami Prasad Maurya was asked about the idea of formation of a new political outfit, he did not commit to the same. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maurya shared his resignation letter on social media. He wrote a separate letter to the Chairman of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council. He said he was elected as a Samajwadi Party member in the legislative council. 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