New Delhi: Agitated over his expulsion from the RLSP, Akhilesh Katiyar on Friday said the entire Uttar Pradesh unit of the party would resign in protest and join Hardik Patel's movement for reservations for the Patel community in the OBC category.

"To register protest against my expulsion, every member of the Uttar Pradesh unit of the party will resign and join Hardik's movement," Katiyar, the expelled Rastriya Lok Samta Party leader said at a press conference. "As many as 17 members of the RLSP's Uttar Pradesh unit resigned today. We will dissolve RLSP's Uttar Pradesh unit," he added.