After failing to persuade the Bharatiya Janata Party to  leave five Lok Sabha seats for it, Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP), an ally of the ruling party in Uttar Pradesh, on Monday said it would go it alone in the ongoing parliamentary elections in the state.

SBSP chief Om Prakash Rajbhar said his party had snapped ties with the ruling BJP and the National Democratic Alliance and would contest 25 Lok Sabha seats in eastern UP.

Rajbhar, who is a Cabinet minister in the Yogi Adityanath Council of Ministers, also said that he had tendered his resignation from the government and sent the resignation letter to the private secretary of the chief minister.

“We have refused the offer given by the BJP and decided to contest the elections on 25 seats,” he said.

The BJP had offered to Rajbhar to contest the Ghosi seat on BJP symbol which he declined.

“We have tried to adjust in the NDA even after insult meted out to us from time to time. But now enough is enough... we will fight against the BJP,” he said.

He also announced that within a day or two, all the candidates would be announced.

“The SBSP will contest the Lok Sabha election on its own. It will field candidates from 25 seats in Uttar Pradesh’’, Rajbhar said in Ballia on Monday.

The SBSP had won four seats in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.

Rajbhar said a meeting on the alliance was held at the chief minister’s residence on April 13, in which Union minister JP Nadda was also present.

“In that meeting, the BJP had proposed to field an SBSP candidate on its symbol, which was not acceptable to me’’, Rajbhar added.

He insisted to use his party symbol even if the SBSP got just one seat to contest.

The Minister for Backward Class Welfare and Divyangjan Empowerment said he had sought time from Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath but was yet to get an appointment.

Meanwhile, Rajbhar’s son and SBSP general secretary Arun Rajbhar said, “The alliance with the BJP is for the Assembly polls and not for Lok Sabha elections.