Ahead of the 2023 Urban Local Body (ULB) and 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Uttar Pradesh BJP has decided to highlight these issues. Party’s success in Gujarat assembly elections To boost the morale of party workers in their organizational events.
The party had earlier introduced the “Gujarat model” of development in the state in the 2014 Lok Sabha and 2017 assembly elections.
Sources said that U.P. BJP After facing defeat in Mainpuri, picks Gujarat victory as “success model” Parliament by-election by Samajwadi Party (SP), and lost the Khatauli assembly by-election to SP’s ally Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) last month. The results of the Gujarat Assembly elections and Mainpuri and Khatauli bypolls were declared on the same day last month.
In the recent assembly elections, the BJP won 156 seats in the Gujarat elections, which is more than the 99 seats it won in 2017. The party also increased its vote share in 2022.
In the BJP state executive meeting held in Lucknow On Sunday, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said in his speech, ‘BJP’s historic victory for the seventh time in Gujarat inspires us to work with renewed enthusiasm. As a winner, it is again before us how we should act while discharging our responsibilities.
BJP UP state president Bhupendra Singh Chowdhary said in his address that the party has created history in Gujarat. Chaudhary said, “Gujarat’s victory shows that pro-incumbency has replaced anti-incumbency in political terminology.” This is the reason why the BJP won the bypolls in Azamgarh and Rampur parliamentary constituencies, which were not BJP’s traditional seats… BJP also won the Rampur assembly bypoll.’
Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya also talked about the party’s success story in Gujarat and recalled his journey to a reserved seat in the state during the recently held assembly elections.
UP BJP sources said, “The Gujarat model will also be discussed by the party leaders in the executive committee meetings of all district and divisional units.” These meetings will be held across the state till February 12.
On the need to project Gujarat’s election victory as a model in UP, a party leader said that in UP the BJP has registered a decline in the number of seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls as compared to 2014, and the 2022 A similar decline has been recorded in the assembly. Elections as compared to 2017. “SP improves its score in 2022. Anti-incumbency and social caste equations were seen as reasons for this. Later, the BJP won the Azamgarh and Rampur Lok Sabha by-elections, though by very small margins, while losing the Mainpuri Lok Sabha by-election by a huge margin. It also failed to retain the Khatauli assembly seat. This trend is enough to boost the morale of the opposition SP and affect the confidence of BJP workers, especially in constituencies where the BJP lost in 2019 and 2022, or won by very narrow margins,” the leader said.
He said that as the party gears up for the ULB and Lok Sabha polls, Gujarat’s victory is being projected as a model, to impress upon workers that the elections should be based on the BJP government’s performance record. Can win, and it doesn’t need to have an anti-incumbency wave against it in 2024.
On the need to discuss Gujarat’s victory as a model for Uttar Pradesh, BJP UP spokesperson Awanish Tyagi said, “This is being done to maintain a sense of victory among party workers and to boost their morale. Gujarat The results were historic and exemplary. When the party is entering poll mode, positive buzz is important. Also it sends a message that if the party’s Gujarat organization can do so well, so can its workers ‘
In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP-led NDA alliance won 73 seats in UP. In 2019, when the BSP and RLD allied with the SP, the BJP-alliance got only 64 seats. In the 2017 assembly elections, the BJP alone won 312 seats, its two allies won only 13 seats together. In 2022, the BJP retained a majority in the UP Assembly, but its own tally dropped to 255, while its two allies won a combined 18 seats.
The BJP had earlier implemented the Gujarat model organizational structure of Panna committees in the Gola Gokarnath Assembly bypoll. Lakhimpur It took place in Kheri district in November last year. After tasting success, the party has now decided to expand it to other parts of the state, according to sources. Panna Samiti is a team of 4-6 workers dedicated to reach out to a group of 30 voters at the booth level.