Two former CMs, Union Ministers to campaign for 2024 battle in Uttar Pradesh

 Two former CMs, Union Ministers to campaign for 2024 battle in Uttar Pradesh

New Delhi 

The BJP is getting battle ready for parliamentary elections in Uttar Pradesh next year. 

A detailed multi-level outreach programme has been drawn and at least two former chief ministers of neighbouring Jharkhand and Uttarakhand have been assigned with high-target responsibilities.

Among others former Chief Ministers of Jharkhand, Raghubar Das and Trivendra Singh Rawat, ex-CM of Uttarakhand have been included in 'Group A' of the campaign team for a cluster of four and five constituencies respectively.  

Rawat will oversee party works for Bansgaon, Deoria, Ballia, Azamgarh and Salempur. 

He will be assisted by Jamal Siddiqui, the national president of the BJP’s minority wing, and also Jai Prakash Shahi, 

former district president of Kushinagar. 

Former Jharkhand CM Raghubar Das will have the assistance of Rajya Sabha MP Krishan Lal Panwar and they

will focus on four Lok Sabha seats such as Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Domariyaganj and Maharajganj. 

Among prominent leaders from other states, former Gujarat deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel 

will cater to five constituencies — Kairana, Muzaffarnagar in UP, and Tehri Garhwal, Haridwar and Garhwal in 

neighbouring Uttarakhand. He will be assisted by Rajya Sabha MP. Vivek Thakur, and also former Bulandshahr 

BJP district president D K Sharma.

Madhya Pradesh Cabinet Ministers Mohan Yadav and Vishwas Sarang too have been given party works

in Uttar Pradesh. Yadav will focus in Gonda, Kaiserganj, Sitapur and Bahraich and Vishwas Sarang  will work

in the cluster comprising Kheri, Mishrikh, Dhaurahra and Hardoi. 

The BJP’s Mahila Morcha national general secretary, Deepti Bhardwaj will also work in these politically sensitive

parliamentary segments. 

 

Importantly from organisational point of view, BJP Yuva Morcha national president Tejasvi Surya 

will work in five Lok Sabha seats of Gautam Buddh Nagar, Ghaziabad, Meerut, Baghpat and Bulandshahr.

Sources said Union Ministers R K Singh, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Narendra Singh Tomar, Jitendra Singh and Meenakshi Lekhi

too have been allocated various parliamentary segments to work in Uttar Pradesh.

Needless to add, India's most populous state Uttar Pradesh always have contributed to BJP's unprecedented

success in 2014 and 2019 parliamentary polls win.

In 2019, the saffron party's vote share was 49.98 percent showing an upswing by 7.35 percent. In 2014, 

the BJP had won 71 seats and it came down to 62 in 2019

Top BJP leaders including Home Minister Amit Shah have always stated that the Lotus party's success

in returning to power in Delhi is "via Uttar Pradesh". The saffron party has won two successive assembly elections

in the state in 2017 and 2022. Uttar Pradesh has 80 Lok Sabha seats and in 2019, the BSP of Mayawati

made a significant gain of 10 seats from its zero tally in 2014.

It is worth mentioning that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP leadership (Amit Shah was BJP president 

in 2017) have been visionary in creating a 'vote catcher' when they decided to make Yogi Adityanath

the UP chief Minister. Other Opposition parties and the Congress were still stuck in the

political approaches of the 1970s.

The photos of PM Modi, a catalyst of development with firm commitment to the Hindutva ideology, keeping 

his hand on Yogi Adityanth's shoulder would be in public memory for months to come. And

the Modi-Yogi duo factor as electoral powerful image will be yet again put to test in the crucial

battle of 2024.

In 2022 after BJP's emphatic win in the assembly polls, BJP leader Rita Bahuguna Joshi had said,

"Public mood is set for development, this is the win of 'Modi-Yogi' double engine government.

People have voted on the issues of security and infrastructure. After 30 years a same party is forming

government in UP for the second time". 

Importantly yet again in last month's Urban Local Body polls in Uttar Pradesh, the results 

were a setback for both the BSP of Mayawati and also the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party. 

For long these two parties dominated political mind space in Uttar Pradesh and even the defeat of 2017 and 

2022 assembly polls did not change their politics.

Now, the BJP managed to pick up 55 of the 147 seats reserved for OBCs.

In 17 mayoral seats of municipal corporations, the lotus party won them all. Yogi Adityanath had his reasons to

say that the BJP has established Triple Engine government.

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