Farmers Movement Archive

Yogi Adityanath meets BJP core committee, discusses panchayat elections

LUCKNOW: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath held a meeting with the core group of senior BJP leaders including BJP vice-president and UP in charge Radha Mohan Singh and party national general secretary Arun Singh at the UP BJP headquarters on Monday evening. While party leadership chose to remain tight-lipped on what transpired at the meeting, sources said the BJP leaders sought a closer coordination with the party and the state government in the run-up to panchayat elections which are seen as a semi-final before the 2022 UP assembly elections. The meeting was also attended by both deputy CMs—Keshav Maurya and Dinesh Sharma—besides senior UP BJP leaders, including state chief Swatantra Dev Singh and general secretary (organisation) Sunil Bansal. Sources said that the leaders also discussed the ongoing farmers’ agitation against the new farm laws and its potential aftermath on the ruling party. “The agitation is being fuelled by the Opposition. We need to find a counter strategy,” said a leader. Sources said UP BJP leadership categorically discussed with CM Yogi the strategy to expedite the grassroots outreach in the run-up to panchayat elections. This comes a day after the BJP charted out programmes for district level meetings from January 7. The party leadership is also learnt to have discussed prospective candidates for the legislative council polls on 12 seats which fall vacant on January 31. The UP leaders will finalise the names before sending them for approval by the national leadership.

The Times of India

2021-01-05

Lucknow