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All the 102 Samajwadi Party MLAs resigned from the Uttar Pradesh assembly on Tuesday in a bid to force early elections.
A decision to this effect was taken at the party's legislature group meeting in Lucknow, SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav said immediately after the meeting.
The resignation letters of the party MLAs had been sent to the assembly secretariat as Speaker Kesri Nath Tripathy was away, he said.
A party delegation would call on Governor Vishnu Kant Shastri later on Tuesday to apprise him of party's decision and submit a memorandum, Yadav said.
The assembly has a strength of 403 members.
The opposition parties have been demanding elections in October saying the term of the House ends that month whereas the government is of the view that the assembly's term is slated to expire only in March next.
The decision to resign was in protest against the Rajnath Singh government's complete failure on the law and order front, the alleged atrocities on SP workers and the government's failure to tackle floods and the drought situation in eastern Uttar Pradesh, Yadav said.
He alleged that the BJP-led coalition government had indulged in corruption and also encouraged criminalisation of politics, adding the government had no right to continue in office.
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