LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh minister Arvind Kumar Sharma on Wednesday said that his party (BJP) was “moving ahead” to “befriend” SP leader Swami Prasad Maurya.
“Dushmani jan kar karo, lekin ye gunjayish rahe ki fir kabhi hum dost ban jayein to sharminda na hon,” he said, citing a couplet of famous poet, Basheer Badr.
“Accha hai ki hum fir dost banne ki taraf badh rahe hain,” he added.
Sharma’s statement came a day after Maurya resigned from the post of SP national general secretary while expressing his anguish over party leaders foiling his attempt to strengthen party’s footprints amongst the OBC and Dalits.
Maurya has though maintained that he would continue as SP MLC and work for the party in the near future.
Known for his controversial remarks on Ramcharitmanas and Ram temple consecration ceremony, Maurya had been attacking BJP, even as the SP leadership maintained it to be his “personal remarks”.
Maurya was one of the three BJP ministers — the other two being Dara Singh Chauhan and Dharam Singh Saini — who had rebelled against the saffron dispensation just before the 2022 assembly elections. Chauhan is already back in BJP and has been nominated as a MLC.
Speculations have been rife that he may be inducted back in Yogi Adityanath cabinet.
Saini too has been trying hard to get back in saffron camp.
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“Dushmani jan kar karo, lekin ye gunjayish rahe ki fir kabhi hum dost ban jayein to sharminda na hon,” he said, citing a couplet of famous poet, Basheer Badr.
“Accha hai ki hum fir dost banne ki taraf badh rahe hain,” he added.
Sharma’s statement came a day after Maurya resigned from the post of SP national general secretary while expressing his anguish over party leaders foiling his attempt to strengthen party’s footprints amongst the OBC and Dalits.
Maurya has though maintained that he would continue as SP MLC and work for the party in the near future.
Known for his controversial remarks on Ramcharitmanas and Ram temple consecration ceremony, Maurya had been attacking BJP, even as the SP leadership maintained it to be his “personal remarks”.
Maurya was one of the three BJP ministers — the other two being Dara Singh Chauhan and Dharam Singh Saini — who had rebelled against the saffron dispensation just before the 2022 assembly elections. Chauhan is already back in BJP and has been nominated as a MLC.
Speculations have been rife that he may be inducted back in Yogi Adityanath cabinet.
Saini too has been trying hard to get back in saffron camp.
We also published the following articles recently
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