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Veteran BSP leader Swami Prasad Maurya quits party

| | Jun 22, 2016, at 10:05 pm
Lucknow, Jun 22 (IBNS): Swami Prasad Maurya, leader of Opposition in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, quit Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Wednesday after levelling charges against party supremo and former UP chief minister Mayawati, according to media reports.

Political experts believe his resignation may be a blow for the BSP prior to the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.

Addressing the media, Maurya alleged that Mayawati is auctioning tickets to the highest bidder. He said, "Mayawati dalit nehi. Daulat ki beti hai" (Mayawati is not a daughter of the Dalits but that of wealth).

Mayawati, in turn, told the media that Maurya wanted that he, along with  his son and daughter, be given tickets for the 2017 elections. But BSP does not support nepotism and that party was happy that he had quit, she said.

 

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