Ex-min Ramveer Upadhyay quits BSP, may join BJP
Categories: Election 2022
Uttar Pradesh MLA Ramveer Upadhyay resigned from the Bahujan Samaj Party on Friday. Ahead of the state Assembly election, he will join the Bharatiya Janata Party in Agra on Saturday, sources told India Today. Ramveer upadhyay was one of the BSP's prominent Brahmin leaders.He had been with the party for 25 years and is a four-time MLA, thrice HATHRAS and once from Sadabad.U nder Mayawati,he also served as the state power minister.In May 2019,he was suspended from the BSP over alleged "anti-party activities". In his resignation letter addressed to party chief Mayawati and dated January 14, Ramveer Upadhyay wrote that the party had not carried out any evaluation despite its losses in the 2009 and 2014 Lok Sabha elections and the 2012 and 2017 Vidhan Sabha elections. “I had demanded this from time to time. I had also apprised you that we would not win seats as per expectation in the 2019 Lok Sabha election as we had lost even our cadre vote," he wrote. Further, he alleged that the party had fallen off the path of the ideals and principles of its founder Kanshiram. “There is no place for honest party workers anymore. Our leader is inaccessible and isolated," he said.