The former UP minister was referring to CM Yogi Adityanath’s statement on the state’s electoral battle between ’20s and 80s’, an indirect reference to the communal structure of Muslims and Hindus in the state.
The 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly election will not be between 20% vs 80% but between 15% and 85%, rebel OBC leader Swami Prasad Maurya said on Friday, January 14, 2022 while pitting the social justice Bahujan polity chief. Against Hindutva mobilization of BJP.
A few days later, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that the election 20 and 80. there will be a fight between, an indirect reference to the communal structure of Muslims and Hindus in the state, Shri Maurya resorted to the antidote to mobilize Dalits, tribals and backward castes against the ‘upper castes’.
Delivering an impassioned speech at his party headquarters here on joining the BJP’s main rival Samajwadi Party, Mr Maurya hit out at the alleged appeasement of the ‘upper castes’, especially the Thakur caste, in which Mr Adityanath himself was born under the BJP government. Had happened. ,
,Government should be made by Dalits and pitchers, and those who eat cream, five percent of the people (Dalits and backward castes formed your government but 5% of upper caste people will get the cream of power?), asked Mr. Maurya. He resigned from the Yogi Adityanath cabinet on Tuesday, accusing the government of neglecting Dalits and OBCs.
Mr Maurya, who joined the BJP in 2016 after 20 years in the BSP where he enjoyed power, said the BJP blindfolded Dalits, OBCs and minorities and snatched power in 2017. He further said that in the last elections, BJP came to power on the strength of backward castes. “He spread the impression that either Keshav Prasad Maurya (BJP leader and deputy CM) or Swami Prasad Maurya would be the chief minister,” Mr Maurya said.
Challenging the BJP’s “Hindu card”, Mr Maurya roared: “Not 80-20, now it will be 15-85 ka. 85 is ours, 15 also has partition (not 80 vs 20, now it is between 15 and 85. All 85 are ours and the remaining 15 is also our share).” 85 refers to mobilization of Dalits, Adivasis and OBCs, while 15 is used for Brahmins, Thakurs It is used to show the strength in the population of the traditional upper castes like Vaishyas and Kayasthas.
Taking a jibe at the Yogi government, Maurya asked the CM if he was a “sympathizer” of Hindus, then why did the government commit the sin of swallowing up the reservation given to Dalits, tribals and backward caste people by the Constitution? a dragon?”
“Yogji, Adivasis, Dalits and Backward Castes are not Hindus,” asked Mr. Maurya. “Do you think only a few big Jat (upper caste) people are Hindus? If only 5-10% of the people are Hindus, then you are definitely in trouble,” Mr Maurya said.