
Uttar Pradesh’s Minister for Prisons Rakesh Verma and another MLA resigned from the Samajwadi Party on Sunday and announced that they would contest the next month’s Assembly elections on the tickets of newly floated Samajwadi Kranti Dal (SKD), headed by former SP leader Beni Prasad Verma. Rakesh Verma, a sitting MLA from Masauli and son of Beni Prasad Verma, said he would contest the polls on an SKD ticket from the same seat.


