13 MLAs from other parties are expected to join the Samajwadi Party

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo Sharad Pawar announced on Tuesday that 13 MLAs from various parties will join the Samajwadi Party (SP) ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.

Pawar further stated that his party will run in the forthcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections alongside the Samajwadi Party and other smaller parties. 

"The people of Uttar Pradesh are longing for a different way of life. We will undoubtedly notice a shift in the state "Pawar stated. "In Uttar Pradesh, communal polarisation is taking place ahead of the Assembly elections. The people of Uttar Pradesh will respond appropriately "Added he.

After Uttar Pradesh Minister Swami Prasad Maurya resigned from the state cabinet on Tuesday, the NCP supremo made his remarks. He eventually joined the Samajwadi Party in the presence of party head Akhilesh Yadav within minutes. 

"Due to the attitude of extreme disregard towards Dalits, backwards, farmers, unemployed young, and small and medium-sized traders, I am leaving from the council of ministers of Yogi (Adityanath) of UP," Maurya stated in a tweet in Hindi, explaining his decision.

"Despite difficult ('vipreet') conditions and ideology," Maurya wrote in his resignation letter to Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel, "I discharged my obligations as the minister for labour, employment, and coordination in the council of ministers headed by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath." Maurya, a member of a lower caste, joined the BJP before the 2017 assembly elections. He is a member of the Padrauna Legislative Assembly. 

Sanghmitra Maurya, his daughter, is a BJP MP who represents Badaun in the Lok Sabha.

The elections in Uttar Pradesh will take place in seven phases: on February 10th, 14, 20, 23, 27, March 3rd, and March 7th. Along with the four other poll-bound states of Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa, and Manipur, the results will be announced on March 10.