Lucknow:
Vinod Tawde has returned to Delhi. National General Secretary of BJP was in Lucknow on a two-day visit. During this, he met many party leaders. Who is the new president of UP BJP? Vinod Tawde had gone to Lucknow on this mission. Assembly elections are to be held in UP after exactly two years. This means that the new state president of BJP will also have the responsibility of elections. The party’s performance in the last Lok Sabha elections was very poor. BJP’s number of seats reduced from 62 to 33. In this way BJP lost 29 seats. After the poor results, the party’s state president Bhupendra Chaudhary had even offered to resign, taking moral responsibility.
BJP is divided into many factions in UP. Everything is not well in the organization and the government also. BJP’s allies are also unhappy. In such a situation, the new state president of BJP will have a crown of thorns. It will be a challenge to take everyone along. Winning the assembly elections in any case is the first agenda. The biggest concern for BJP is to preserve its social equation. Samajwadi Party is trying to break it with the slogan of PDA. Mayawati and her party BSP are also continuously becoming weak. BJP has been benefiting from the division of opposition votes. The party’s concern is to win over the Dalit voters who are breaking away from Mayawati. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP made non-Yadav backward and non-Jatav Dalits its base vote. But this social engineering disintegrated in the last Lok Sabha elections. In such a situation, the state president of BJP in UP will have to work on several fronts simultaneously.
According to social equation, who will be the new president of UP BJP? He may be a Brahmin. Or this responsibility can be given to a leader from a backward class. As many people, so much talks. It is also being said that this time the party leadership may be at stake on a Dalit leader. Sources also say that it is not yet decided whether the state president should be changed or not. This is the claim of the supporters of current state president Bhupendra Chaudhary. However, the tradition has been that there is not the same Speaker for Lok Sabha and Assembly elections.
BJP’s National General Secretary Vinod Tawde had come to Lucknow on a special mission. His visit was sudden. During this he met UP CM Yogi Adityanath. Then also met Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya. Tawde could not meet the second Deputy CM Brajesh Pathak. Because he was in Prayagraj. He also had a long meeting with the party’s organization minister in UP, Dharampal Singh. Tawde also consulted BJP state president Bhupendra Chaudhary. Meeting all these, Vinod Tawde asked for two names for the state president. Now which leader suggested which name? Right now this is a secret. Sources reveal that the central leadership of the party will be informed about all these names.
Union Minister Piyush Goyal has been made the election officer of UP on behalf of BJP. He has not visited UP yet. But before that, National General Secretary Vinod Tawde had done the first round of work. Party’s Organization General Secretary BL Santosh also came to Lucknow last week. It is said that he has also talked to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath regarding the election of the state president. Many leaders are racing for Delhi to become the state president. They are lobbying for themselves. A leader has even performed puja in two temples to fulfill his wishes.