Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya 
New Delhi: Following Uttar Pradesh minister and BJP leader Swami Prasad Maurya resigned from the state cabinet, Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya persuaded him to reconsider his decision.
Taking to Twitter, the deputy CM said that decisions taken in haste often prove to be wrong and appealed to the BJP leader to discuss the matter with the party.
“I do not know why Swami Prasad Maurya ji has resigned but I appeal to him to sit and talk, hasty decisions often prove to be wrong,” he wrote on Twitter in Hindi, in his public appeal.
In a major setback to the BJP ahead of Uttar Pradesh elections next year, Swami Prasad Maurya on Tuesday resigned from the Yogi Adityanath-led cabinet.
“I worked with dedication in the Yogi Adityanath cabinet despite a conflicting ideology and circumstances. I resign from the Yogi cabinet of Uttar Pradesh due to the attitude of gross neglect towards Dalits, OBCs, farmers, unemployed youth and small, and medium businessmen,” Maurya, a five-term MLA, said in his resignation letter addressed to Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel.
Maurya, who was Minister of Labour, Employment, Coordination in the UP government, is likely to join the Samajwadi Party.
Maurya, who belongs to influential OBC (Other Backward Class), had left Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to join the BJP in 2016 before the 2017 Assembly polls.
He represents the Padrauna constituency of Uttar Pradesh. His daughter Sanghmitra Maurya is a BJP MP and represents Badaun in Lok Sabha.
Welcoming the senior leader to his party, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said that there will be a “revolution of social justice”.
“Warm welcome and greetings to popular leader Swami Prasad Maurya Ji, who fought for social justice and equality and all the other leaders, workers and supporters who came with him in SP! There will be a revolution of social justice~ There will be a change in 22,” Yadav tweeted, along with a picture of him and Maurya.