Before UP floor test, 78 MLAs quit
	New Delhi: In a dramatic move just 48 hours before the slated vote of confidence for the Mulayam Singh Yadav government, 78 MLAs, including 67 of the BSP MLAs in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday resigned from the state Assembly. The BSP's action has taken out the fizz to some extent of the proposed trust vote of the Samajwadi Party (SP) government and it is likely that other parties like the BJP, Congress and RLD may follow the same before the Assembly sitting on Monday. The BSP legislators submitted their resignations to party chief Mayawati, who will send it to the Assembly speaker. The eleven other MLAs, BJP-5, SP-4, IND-2, have also resigned and joined the BSP. Talking about the political turmoil Mayawati said, “The resignation is against the unconstitutional government in UP.” Mayawati alleged that the UP Speaker is biased and acting like a member of the ruling party. She also said that the Speaker has failed to implement the Supreme Court verdict disqualifying 13 members of the Loktantrik Bahujan Dal. 'Till date, the Speaker did not release the fresh list of the Assembly and consider the fate of the remaining 24 MLAs,'' she said. The MLAs who have joined the BSP are Amar Singh Yadav and Mahesh Chandra (both Independents), Fateh Bahadur Singh, Ram Prasad Choudhury, Badshah Singh, Jagdish Mishra and Fagu Chauhan (all BJP), Mrs Omvati, Kalyan Singh, Sunder lal and Ratan Lal Ahirwar (all SP).