Dara Singh Chauhan was a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Ahead of the crucial assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Chauhan quit Yogi Adityanath's cabinet, and joined the Samajwadi Party. The 58-year-old minister for environment and forests in the Adityanath government had quit a day after prominent OBC leader Swami Prasad Maurya's resignation. In his resignation, Chauhan wrote on the same lines as Swami Prasad Maurya, "I worked with dedication but I am resigning as I am hurt by this government's oppressive attitude towards the backward, deprived sections, Dalits, farmers and unemployed youth and the neglect of quota for the backward and Dalits." Chauhan had previously served as an MP of Rajya Sabha as well as Lok Sabha. In 2015, Chauhan was the leader of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). Later he joined BJP in presence of party president Amit Shah in New Delhi. Soon after he joined BJP, Dara Singh Chauhan was made the BJP OBC Morcha President and given the ticket to fight the MLA Election from Madhuban Constituency which he won. BJP was able to win in this constituency for the first time under his guidance. Chauhan held many important post in government of India. Chauhan was born on July 25, 1963 in Galvara village of Uttar Pradesh’s Azamgarh district to Ram Kishan Chauhan. Chauhan has attended the Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad Allahabad and has a high school degree. The Bharatiya Janata Party will contest the 2022 Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh on its own. The saffron party had won 312 out of the 403 assembly seats in UP in the last assembly polls, while its allies won 13.