The Bharatiya Janata Party has come into an offensive after two OBC ministers tendered their resignations over the alleged insult of Backwards and Dalits during the Yogi Adityanath regime, asking why the issue of Dalit harassment was not raised in the last five years.
After Forest Minister Dara Singh Chauhan tendered his resignation on Wednesday, Aviation Minister Nand Gopal Nandi said in a tweet that in the last five years Chauhan had never raised the issue of Dalit atrocities during cabinet meetings and now, just before elections he was talking about government neglecting Dalits and Backwards.
“He (Chauhan) copy-pasted the resignation letter of Swami Prasad Maurya and who is the scriptwriter everyone knows now,” Nandi said in his tweet.
Incidentally, the language of the resignation letter of Dara Singh Chauhan is identical to that of Swami Prasad Maurya, who had resigned a day earlier.
Nandi, who was also in the Bahujan Samaj Party with Maurya and Chauhan, has picked the flaw in language and raised the issue.
After the flurry of resignations in which three BJP lawmakers also resigned, Vinay Tiwari, a senior BJP leader wrote on his Facebook page: Mool hee shresht hai (Original is the best) hinting that all those leaders who had joined BJP during elections have resigned.
The BJP media group even shared a FB page of Utkarsh Maurya in which Swami Prasad Maurya is seen calling the Samajwadi Party as sympathisers of terrorists.