New Delhi: BJP leader and Interior Minister Amit Shah is likely to hold a series of meetings at Uttar Pradesh from next week because the party was seen intensifying his election campaign to maintain power in the state.
With the election commission expand the prohibition of public meetings and roadshows until January 22 and BJP leadership resolves its candidates for assembly polls in five states, Shah will begin the tour after Saturday and hold a meeting, including with organizational leaders, to cover all overtar pradesh stretches.
With several party leaders in five polls looking for tickets for their relatives, a senior BJP leader said relatives of party members who had held selected positions such as MP or MLA could not be lowered.
However, this rule will not apply to those who have been MLAS, he added.
Even if the prohibition remains, EC has allowed indoor meetings under certain conditions, the source records.
In informal interactions, the senior party leader also expressed confidence that BJP will repeat the achievements of 2017 when it has won more than 300 seats in the assembly of 403 members, by saying that the performance of the Yogi Adityanath government on legal and order and corruption, in addition to the Modi Government Welfare Program at the Center , will win over community support.
Asked about a series of defections from BJP to the Samajwadi party main rivals, including OBC Swami Prasad Maurya leader, and their guessions that it was the anti-backward caste, party leaders said these leaders basically claimed to represent their caste and what might have pushed their resignation themselves are that BJP has won these communities, which leads to their marginalization.
The type of backward representation of Maurya, Saura or Nouse has received in the BJP organization and also in his administration there to be seen, he said, claiming that the Samajwadi Party never gave this community.
Whatever this defector said, this community has no reason not to support BJP, he added.
Voters at Uttar Pradesh have given a clear mandate in some of the last polls and BJP believes that it will not be different this time, he said.
Since Lok Sabha’s 2014 polls, when BJP won 71 of the 80 seats, the party swept the country in the 2017 Assembly and then in 2019 Lok Sabha poll, pushed its rival to the margin.
President SP Akhilesh Yadav has targeted BJP for the alleged non-performance of the state government and has worked to expand his party base by triggering leaders from rival parties.
This country headed for seven phase polls starting from February 10.
BJP has announced its candidates for 107 seats in Uttar Pradesh and is likely to announce its nominance for the rest of the seats in the coming days.