10 UP MLAs, ministers quitting raises questions about BJP ‘import’ policy at cost of loyalists10 UP MLAs, ministers quitting raises questions about BJP ‘import’ policy at cost of loyalists

New Delhi: In a span of 72 hours, between 11 and 13 January, 10 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators in Uttar Pradesh — including three ministers in the Yogi Adityanath cabinet — quit the party. There was one common thread linking them: None of them had had any ideological grooming in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), or cut their political teeth with the BJP. They were all political turncoats — nine of them coming from the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and one from the Congress.