Lucknow: Following the footsteps of three leaders that quit the Bahujan Samaj Party ahead of the forthcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, party's national secretary Paramdev Yadav also resigned on Sunday.
After serving the party for 35 years, Paramdev said he felt suffocated in the Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party as the interests of the Dalits were "being mortgaged to the people with money bags".
Calling the BSP a "grocery store" where money could buy anything from tickets to party posts, he said people who have no background and no loyalty to the party were made Member of Legislative Council while dedicated workers like him were being sidelined.
While he did not disclose any details about his future political action, he dropped enough hints that he could join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
He told the media "I am headed for Kashi (Varanasi)".
Varanasi is the parliamentary constituency of Prime minister Narendra Modi.
Since June, he is the fourth top BSP leader to have left the party, levelling almost similar charges against Mayawati.
Senior party leaders Swami Prasad Maurya left the Bahujan Samaj Party in June and leaders RKChowdhary and Ravindra Nath Tripathi quit recently.
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