Rush of UP BJP netas to Delhi adds to speculation about rift
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Amid reports of disenchantment and anger among BJP workers of Uttar Pradesh after the party’s poor performance in the Lok Sabha polls, the party’s top brass has been holding meetings with its state leaders, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself meeting the party’s UP chief on Wednesday. The meeting between the two lasted for more than an hour.
Though the PM meets the BJP’s organization leaders at the party meetings and events. But, it is not very often that Modi holds oneonone meeting with a state unit chief of the party.
A senior leader from UP said this meeting shows the concern in the BJP’s top brass over the situation in the state and rumblings within its ranks, especially between the government and organizational workers. In the meeting with Modi, Chaudhary is learned to have presented the report. formed by the BJP’s UP unit on the party’s poor performance in the LS polls.
After Chaudhary’s meeting, senior BJP leader and Union home minister Amit Shah also met Modi at the latter’s residence.
On Tuesday, UP deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya, who has been camping in the national capital after the Lok Sabha results, met party president JP Nadda at the BJP headquarters here on Tuesday. Maurya came to Delhi days after his remarks in the BJP’s state executive meeting that the organization is bigger than the government, seen as a veiled attack on Adityanath.