UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath will lead the party campaign in the upcoming bypolls on 10 assembly seats in the state. Yogi has already started touring the assembly constituencies and has covered Milkipur and Katehari assembly constituencies. On Friday, Yogi Aditya Nath was in Ghaziabad assembly constituency which is also scheduled to go for the by-poll after sitting MLA Atul Garg became an MP from Ghaziabad.
On Thursday evening, a meeting of the BJP state unit, the government and the RSS took place for the first time post the Lok Sabha results to take stock of the situation and ensure better coordination between the government, the party and the cadre. The meeting took place under the leadership of RSS Sah Sarkaryawah Arun Kumar where along with Yogi, both the deputy chief ministers, state president and state general secretary (oraganisation) were present.Recently, the rumours have been floating around about differences among the leadership at the top in UP and this meeting was aimed to ease out differences and put up a united face ahead of assembly elections. Behind the scenes efforts were already going on by the RSS and the results were visible over the past few days. On August 18, deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya openly praised the CM and termed him the best chief minister among all states. Maurya has also been attending party workers meeting alongside Yogi to send out a message of truce among the party cadre.
The Thursday meeting was taking this unity a step forward. Apart from the focus on the bypolls, discussion also took place on the opposition strategy to gain foothold in the OBC and SC community voters. Sources tell ET that a decision was taken to launch a counterattack on the opposition highlighting the work done by the double engine government in the state for these communities.
