State BJP president met Modi-Shah.
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Uttar Pradesh BJP president Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday and discussed several issues related to the party’s organisational matters in the state. Chaudhary and state Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya also met BJP national president JP Nadda separately on Tuesday. This series of meetings has taken place amid signs of discontent emerging from within the party in the state. In the Lok Sabha elections, the BJP had to face defeat at the hands of the SP-Congress alliance in UP.
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Party leaders have also started believing that Keshav Prasad Maurya has differences with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. In the state party meeting, Maurya had said in the presence of Adityanath and Nadda that the organization is always bigger than the government and no one can be bigger than the organization. Many political observers had also described this statement of his as a message for Yogi. The Deputy Chief Minister further escalated the controversy by posting a comment ‘The organization is bigger than the government…’ from his office handle on Wednesday.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath blamed overconfidence for the electoral defeat in the state and suggested that the party could not effectively counter the opposition India Alliance’s campaign. Several BJP leaders in the state have criticised the chief minister’s style of functioning. These include leaders who lost the Lok Sabha elections, citing it as one of the reasons for their defeat. In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP managed to win only 33 out of 80 seats, while the Samajwadi Party won 37 seats, a poor performance for the BJP, which had won 61 seats in the 2019 general elections.
Chaudhary submitted the report of defeat in the election to Modi and Shah
Amidst the heated political atmosphere after Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Maurya’s Delhi visit, BJP state president Bhupendra Chaudhary met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday and informed them about the latest political atmosphere in the state. According to sources, Chaudhary has also submitted a report to both the leaders on the reasons for the reduction in seats in the Lok Sabha elections. He has also given information about the further preparations being made at the government and organization level.