New Delhi: A day after quitting BJP party, a district court has issued an arrest warrant in a seven years old case against BJP MLA Swami Prasad on Wednesday.
Maurya will have to appear before the MP-MLA court in Sultanpur on January 24.
The case was registered against BJP leader for hurting religious sentiments when he was in the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). The warrant was originally issued on January 6 but Maurya had taken a stay against it by the High Court in 2016 and later thr case was not followed.
He, however, quit the party yesterday citing that BJP is an anti BCs party and said, BJP was “deaf to the problems of the backward classes” and that the party had “done me no favours by making me a minister.