Lucknow : BJP In the national executive announced on Thursday, the brass did clever caste calculations by including six OBC, one Dalit and two Brahmin leaders from Uttar Pradesh. 42 members from Uttar Pradesh, including PM Narendra Modi, are part of the party’s top decision-making body.
Among the prominent faces of the most backward caste in the list are ministers of state Swami Prasad MauryaMLA from Padrauna and Dara Singh Chauhan, MLA from Madhuban in Mau. Chauhan comes from the ‘Nuniya’ backward sub-caste, which has a significant presence in eastern UP. Significantly, both Maurya and Chouhan had migrated from the Mayawati-led BSP to the saffron camp.
UP BJP President Swatantra Dev Singh OBC is the second big name of the category to be included in the National Executive Committee. Cabinet minister Anil Rajbhar has also been included as a special invitee – a move seen as a countermeasure to former colleague and SBSP chief Om Prakash Rajbhar, who is increasing his strength to challenge the BJP. Similarly, party’s Fatehpur MP and Union Minister of State Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti has also been nominated to the National Executive for the first time. Jyoti belongs to the Nishad (fishermen) community, which has a significant electoral presence in 60 assembly seats in eastern UP. His joining the national executive comes close on the heels of the BJP forging an alliance with the Sanjay Nishad-led Nishad Party for elections.
BJP MP from Dhaurahra, Kurmi, Rekha Verma has also found place in the list for being the party vice-president for more than a year. In the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Verma defeated Congress’ turncoat Jitin Prasada, who had joined the BJP in July and was recently inducted into the Congress. Yogi Adityanath Cabinet. bareilly mp Santosh Gangwar |A prominent Kurmi leader from Rohilkhand region has also been included as a member.
The development once again drew attention to the BJP’s concerted efforts to strengthen the OBC vote-bank, which accounts for 42% of the voting population in UP. It is also seen as a saffron outfit’s response to regional political outfits, including the SP and BSP’s aggressive attempts to woo Brahmins, who have otherwise traditionally voted for the BJP.
The BJP also played the upper caste card by including UP minister Brijesh Pathak as a member. A BSP turncoat and Brahmin, Pathak is believed to have played a key role in Mayawati’s social engineering formula, which propelled her to power with an absolute majority in the 2007 assembly elections. The BJP has also included former Meerut MLA Laxmikant Vajpayee as a special invitee to the national executive.
Earlier, the BJP had appointed Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, a prominent OBC face in the Modi cabinet, in charge of the UP elections. In addition, three OBC leaders – BL Verma (Lodh), Pankaj Choudhary (Kurmi) and Anupriya Patel (Kurmi) were inducted into the Union Cabinet effective in July, giving a clear indication of the heavy weight of OBCs in the BJP’s election. meet. mathematics. Actually, Rajya Sabha MP Verma has been included in the National Executive as a special invitee member.
Similarly, former Uttarakhand governor Baby Rani Maurya, who was recently appointed BJP vice-president, will be a member of the national executive. Baby Rani, the former mayor of Agra, is being projected as the Dalit face of the BJP.
Among the prominent faces of the most backward caste in the list are ministers of state Swami Prasad MauryaMLA from Padrauna and Dara Singh Chauhan, MLA from Madhuban in Mau. Chauhan comes from the ‘Nuniya’ backward sub-caste, which has a significant presence in eastern UP. Significantly, both Maurya and Chouhan had migrated from the Mayawati-led BSP to the saffron camp.
UP BJP President Swatantra Dev Singh OBC is the second big name of the category to be included in the National Executive Committee. Cabinet minister Anil Rajbhar has also been included as a special invitee – a move seen as a countermeasure to former colleague and SBSP chief Om Prakash Rajbhar, who is increasing his strength to challenge the BJP. Similarly, party’s Fatehpur MP and Union Minister of State Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti has also been nominated to the National Executive for the first time. Jyoti belongs to the Nishad (fishermen) community, which has a significant electoral presence in 60 assembly seats in eastern UP. His joining the national executive comes close on the heels of the BJP forging an alliance with the Sanjay Nishad-led Nishad Party for elections.
BJP MP from Dhaurahra, Kurmi, Rekha Verma has also found place in the list for being the party vice-president for more than a year. In the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Verma defeated Congress’ turncoat Jitin Prasada, who had joined the BJP in July and was recently inducted into the Congress. Yogi Adityanath Cabinet. bareilly mp Santosh Gangwar |A prominent Kurmi leader from Rohilkhand region has also been included as a member.
The development once again drew attention to the BJP’s concerted efforts to strengthen the OBC vote-bank, which accounts for 42% of the voting population in UP. It is also seen as a saffron outfit’s response to regional political outfits, including the SP and BSP’s aggressive attempts to woo Brahmins, who have otherwise traditionally voted for the BJP.
The BJP also played the upper caste card by including UP minister Brijesh Pathak as a member. A BSP turncoat and Brahmin, Pathak is believed to have played a key role in Mayawati’s social engineering formula, which propelled her to power with an absolute majority in the 2007 assembly elections. The BJP has also included former Meerut MLA Laxmikant Vajpayee as a special invitee to the national executive.
Earlier, the BJP had appointed Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, a prominent OBC face in the Modi cabinet, in charge of the UP elections. In addition, three OBC leaders – BL Verma (Lodh), Pankaj Choudhary (Kurmi) and Anupriya Patel (Kurmi) were inducted into the Union Cabinet effective in July, giving a clear indication of the heavy weight of OBCs in the BJP’s election. meet. mathematics. Actually, Rajya Sabha MP Verma has been included in the National Executive as a special invitee member.
Similarly, former Uttarakhand governor Baby Rani Maurya, who was recently appointed BJP vice-president, will be a member of the national executive. Baby Rani, the former mayor of Agra, is being projected as the Dalit face of the BJP.
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