New Delhi, Jan 14: Swami Prasad Maurya, the ex-BJP minister who quit the party and Yogi Adityanath-led state cabinet on Tuesday to join Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party with his other colleagues said that he will make sure that the saffron party shrinks back to the 45-seat standing in Uttar Pradesh Assembly.

While talking to ANI, Maurya said that he introduced the other BJP MLAs, who left the saffron camp ahead of the assembly polls citing neglect towards backward classes as a reason to SP chief Akhilesh Yadav in a high-level meeting and claimed that he will make the BJP lose the mandate it won in the assembly elections the last term.