Is BJP contesting– Is all well in UP BJP? The debate on this question has intensified with the latest statement of Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya. In the party’s program in Hathras, Maurya said that the election in UP will be fought under the leadership of the lotus flower. Whereas Union Home Minister Amit Shah had said in Lucknow that the victory of Yogi in 2022 is Modi’s victory.
With this announcement of Amit Shah, who is called Chanakya of BJP, there was a full stop on the question of leadership. Who is the CM face of BJP in UP elections? There was suspense regarding this question for the last few months. Isn’t it going to be used in UP like in Assam? Where Sarbananda Sonowal had a government, but after the results came, Himanta Biswa Sarma was made the Chief Minister. Shah put an end to this suspense in Lucknow. When he appealed to make Yogi the Chief Minister again, then Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya was also next to him on the stage, but after three days Keshav Prasad Maurya increased both confusion and tension. In Hathras, when a journalist asked Maurya the question under whose leadership BJP is contesting the elections in UP, he replied that BJP is contesting the elections under the leadership of lotus flower. (Is BJP contesting)
When Keshav Prasad Maurya made this statement regarding the leadership, then UP BJP President Swatantra Dev Singh was also in Hathras. Even three months ago, when the controversy regarding the CM face was going on, only Swatantra Dev Singh used to handle the front on behalf of CM Yogi Adityanath. He kept saying that there is a government of Yogi ji in UP which is doing the best work in the country and he will become the next CM of UP.
This was the period when the news of the increasing distance between Delhi and Lucknow was heard and heard in the BJP. This thing got air when Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya started saying that the Chief Minister is decided by the elected MLAs. Maurya continued to refer to the BJP’s tradition of electing the leader every time, in which the party’s central observers choose the leader of the legislature party with the consent of the new legislators.
In UP politics, the distance between CM Yogi Adityanath and Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya has been there since the beginning. This is from the last election, when Keshav Prasad Maurya was the president of UP BJP. Yogi Adityanath was the MP from Gorakhpur. Both were in the race for CM, but the saffron-clad Yogi won. Maurya, who did the politics of backwards, had to be content with the Deputy CM. Since then, the news of their rift has been filtering through. In Lucknow, the government house of both is adjacent. But Yogi went to Keshav’s house for the first time in the month of June this year. They also bless the bride and groom on the pretext of marriage of Keshav’s son.
Keshav Prasad Maurya also sweetened the mouth of Yogi Adityanath at his home, but the bitterness of power remains the same even today. Akhilesh Yadav also keeps suppressing the pain of BJP regarding this relationship. It is said that UP BJP is divided into two factions. In one group, CM Yogi Adityanath and UP BJP President Swatantra Dev Singh are there, while in the other camp there is Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya and UP BJP’s Organization General Secretary Sunil Bansal. (Is BJP contesting)
