Adityanath Playing Aggressive Hindutva Card For Ten Assembly By-Polls

By Pradeep Kapoor

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and BJP played aggressive Hindutva card by asking the shopowners of districts from where kanwariya yatra is taking place keeping by-elections for 10 assembly seats in the state in mind .

Although Supreme Court has stayed the order of Yogi Adityanath government asking the shopowners to display the name but BJP has already achieved the purpose for which this step was taken. The issue is being talked about in the state and other parts of country.

Irrespective of humiliating defeat in Ayodhya and neighbouring seats in Lok Sabha polls and loss in Badrinath seat in Uttarakhand in recently concluded by-election, BJP is adamant to play aggressive Hindutva card for forthcoming bypolls for assembly seats. BJP is not bothered by the open criticism by RLD president Jayant Choudhry and other alliance partners regarding government order asking the shopowners to write their names.

At a time when sharp differences in UP ministry and BJP surfaced recently when leaders, legislators openly blamed the apathy of the administration, chief minister Yogi Adityanath has taken the responsibility for the forthcoming by-polls.

Yogi convened the meeting of 16 senior ministers and entrusted them the task of mobilising the voters for party candidates and actively campaigning for them. The chief minister Yogi Adityanath asked the ministers to focus on the achievements of the government and ensure victory in all the 10 seats.

Similarly BJP UP president Bhupendra Choudhry and BJP general secretary organisation Dharampal also held meetings with senior leaders and appointed incharge of each constituency. There is a realisation in BJP that the outcome of these byelections will set the mood for the remaining period before the general elections for assembly in 2027.

After the results of Lok Sabha polls, BJP leadership also feel that it would be very difficult to face the opposition which is in very upbeat mood after the success of INDIA alliance in the state. The combination of Akhilesh Yadav and Rahul Gandhi with the proper social engineering through PDA ( pichda, dalit and alpsangkhayak) is ready to face BJP .

It would be worth mentioning out of the ten assembly seats going to by polls ,Samajwadi Party had five seats, BJP had three while the alliance partners of NDA RLD and Nishad Party had one each. (IPA Service)