UP elections 2022: Backward caste leader Mukesh Verma 7th BJP MLA to quit party in 3 days

LUCKNOW: In another jolt to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, Shikohabad MLA Mukesh Verma resigned from the party on Thursday, becoming the seventh lawmaker to quit the saffron fold in the last three days.
Verma, in his resignation sent to the party national president JP Nadda, toed the lines of other defecting saffron party MLAs, including Swami Prasad Maurya and Dara Singh Chauhan, to accuse the BJP dispensation of being “ignorant” towards the welfare of Dalits and Backward