At the state party unit’s working committee meeting on Sunday, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath raised a stir when he claimed that the BJP’s chances of winning UP in the most recent Lok Sabha elections had been harmed by “shifting of votes and overconfidence.”
When Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya stated during the meeting that the party organisation was always larger than the government, the divisions were obvious. Maurya’s meeting with BJP president JP Nadda in New Delhi on Tuesday added to the intrigue within the party.
Source: News 18
Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary, the leader of the state party, is another important player. This week, he met separately with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Nadda. This time, the saffron party’s poor showing in UP was the main factor in its failure to secure a majority in the Lok Sabha.
In the state that sends 80 members to the Lower House, the Samajwadi Party-Congress combination swept to victory with 43 seats, while it only managed to win 33 seats (down from 62 in 2019). The BJP was taken aback by its loss in the Ayodhya district’s Faizabad parliamentary seat, where Prime Minister Modi had opened the Ram Mandir in January. The Prime Minister secured the Varanasi seat with approximately 1.52 lakh votes, a far cry from his 4.79 lakh vote margin of victory in the 2019 elections.
Source: The Economic Times
In the upcoming months, the state will hold byelections for ten Assembly seats; the party’s high command is finding it difficult to align Yogi, Maurya, and Chaudhary. Yogi, who was formerly considered PM Modi’s protégé, is now less respected as a result of the most recent election defeat. The BJP would only lose further momentum in light of the passionate comeback of the SP-Congress combination if it does not prioritise cleaning up its UP home.
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