'All will be revealed on January 14 (Friday)' - influential OBC leader Swami Prasad Maurya's response to furious speculation surrounding his political future after he quit the BJP and the Yogi Adityanath government yesterday ahead of elections in less than 30 days. Mr Maurya told NDTV the BJP was "deaf to the problems of the backward classes" and underlined the BJP's "14 years of banwaas (exile)" before victory in the 2017 polls, which he proudly linked to his coming on board - from Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party - the year before.