BY A STAFF REPORTER: Ahead of UP Poll, Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister Swami Prasad Maurya resigns from his post. Also he all set to join the Samajwadi Party. Swami Prasad Maurya submitted his resignation to the Governor and wrote, "Hon'ble Governor ji, as Minister of Labour and Services and Coordination in chief minister Yogi Adityanathji's cabinet, has discharged the responsibility with great concentration even in the face of adversity and ideology, but I resign from the Cabinet of Uttar Pradesh due to the gross lying attitude of dalits, backward, farmers, unemployed youth and small and medium scale traders."