Lucknow: The day after BJP appointed MP Rajya Sabha Jai Prakash Nishad as a fishermen cell regulation in the top unit, the spotlight shifted to the BJP strategic step to support the face of the most caste lead to the back to fight the head of the Nishad party who was firm Sanjay Nishad, who bargained bid hard with BJP brass in running polls.
The source said BJP had quickly shifted the teeth to take Sanjay Nishad, more than a month after he met the Minister of Internal Affairs Amit Shah and the Head of BJP JP Nadda and projected himself as the only Torchbearer from the Mallah Vote Bank.
Sanjay has been looking for a minister’s bed in the Union cabinet for his son, Pravin Nishad.
If it was not enough, he ruffled BJP’s leadership feathers by throwing requests projected as a party representative of CM faces in the assembly poll.
The two demands fell flat.
The source said Jai Prakash would be assigned to work around 130 assembly seats, including those in Gorakhpur, who had a large number of Nishad voters.
The Nishad community and other 16 sub-caste have searched inclusions in the SC list.