Team Yogi's Latest Defector,Dharam Singh Saini,Explains 24-Hour U-Turn

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      Dharam Singh Saini said that,"It was decided 1.5 years ago that we all will resign. When almost 140 MLAs had launched a dharna against the government because of how the downtrodden were being treated. But their voice was suppressed. That was when everyone decided, we will give an answer to this. We were waiting for the right moment. And that is why one minister is resigning every day. This will go on till the 20th," he told NDTV.

      Mr Saini also explained why just 24 hours ago he had issued a video statement saying he would not be quitting the BJP. "I had not yet received (SP) Maurya ji's message so I had not quit. Then he reached out. Akhilesh ji also sent a messenger and said, 'Join us, if you feel it's right. We will honour you and work for the backward sections'," he said.

In his resignation letter addressed to Governor Anandiben Patel, Mr Saini said he was quitting over the continued neglect of the aspirations of Dalits, backward classes, farmers, educated unemployed, and small and mid-level traders who together gave the BJP a sweeping majority in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.

     He claimed the representatives of Dalits and backwards were also being neglected.