Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday (June 6) evening held a high-level organisational meeting with party’s national president, J P Nadda, and BJP general secretaries in-charge of different poll-bound states.
Earlier on Saturday and Sunday, the party’s national president J P Nadda had prolonged meetings with various senior leaders and in-charge of different cells of the poll-bound states.
The five states which are going to poll early next year are Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur. Incidentally, Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh are also going to poll at the end of 2022.
Though apparently the two-day brain-storming session was held to review the situation arising out of COVID-19 and subsequent developments yet it was the fluid political situation in UP which kept everyone guessing.
Prominent among those who were present at the meeting held at the residence of PM Modi were general secretaries B L Santosh and Arun Singh.
Curiously, this latest development is being taken together with another meeting the UP in-charge of the BJP, Radha Mohan Singh, had with the state governor, Anandiben Patel in Lucknow.
The grapevine has it that, among other things, the expansion of Yogi cabinet has also come up during the meeting in Lucknow.
Some political observers are of the view that PM’s favourite former bureaucrat Arvind Kumar Sharma, may be inducted into the cabinet as a part of move to cut Yogi to size. They are of the view that the Sangh Parivar is divided over the issue of Yogi. But nobody is ready to say anything on record.
UP watchers are of the view that the BJP has been caught in a fix on the issue of Yogi just six months before the Assembly election in the state. ‘If this uncertainty continues the party will have to pay a price,’ one of them commented.
