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Uttar Pradesh unit will get its new president only after the election of the national president. He further said that a clear message has been given to the candidates of Uttar Pradesh to go back and continue working at the ground level.
Lucknow: Speculation about the appointment of the new president of Uttar Pradesh BJP continues continuously. Inner sources of the party say that only after the election of the party’s national president, the state unit can get a new leader. Earlier, it was widely believed that the name of the state BJP president would be decided first, followed by the National President. However, now sources say that this sequence will be reversed and there will be a national leadership election before appointment in Uttar Pradesh. One of the main reasons is that the national election process – in which the quorum has already been completed for the selection of state presidents in most states. So far elections have been completed in 28 states. A senior BJP leader told PTI-language that Uttar Pradesh unit will get its new president only after the election of the national president.
Decision takes top leadership about the state president
He further said that a clear message has been given to the candidates of Uttar Pradesh to go back and continue working at the ground level. The decision will be given in case of time. However, he said that what decisions the top leadership of the party takes about the state president cannot be estimated. Asked who could be the next president, the leader said that it is difficult to predict right now because the party consider not only on immediate circumstances, but also on long -term electoral and political equations. The BJP’s politically most important state has 98 organizational districts in Uttar Pradesh, including 75 administrative districts and metropolitan units. In the late March, 70 district presidents were announced by BJP’s state organizational election in -charge and former Union Minister Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey. There was speculation from that announcement that soon the name of the state president would be announced, because more than half of the organizational districts are required for the selection process. However, even after four months, the party has not been able to move forward yet. Even the list of members of the State Council, who works as voters and proposer in the presidential election, has not been released yet.
Names of many potential contenders in discussion
A party official told PTI that these council members are necessary to complete the election process. The names of many potential contenders are in discussion. Panchayat elections in 2026 and state assembly elections in 2027 are to be held. In such a situation, it is believed that the BJP is considering the strategy of its main rival Samajwadi Party (SP) along with caste and regional factors, which has intensified its PDA (Backward, Dalit, Minority) campaign. Sources close to the party say that the BJP can once again turn to the backward class for its new state president. Since 2016, the post has been with leaders of both Brahmins and OBCs: Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey (Brahmin), Swatantra Dev Singh and current Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary, who are from the OBC community. In the past, the pair of OBC leader Kalyan Singh (Lodh) and Brahmin leader Kalraj Mishra helped strengthen the BJP in the state. However, since then, the Lodh community has not been given the role of leadership.
Party’s special eye on Dalit voters also
Analysts believe that this time the claim of the Lodh community is strong. Minister of State Dharampal Singh and Union Minister BL Verma are at the forefront of this post. However, any decision is expected to consent of Kalyan Singh’s family, including his son and former MP Rajveer Singh and grandson and Minister of State Sandeep Singh. From the Kurmi community, which is another influential OBC group, leaders like Vinay Katiyar, Om Prakash Singh and Swatantra Dev Singh have first led the state unit, and Singh is once again considered a strong contender. Other names include Rajya Sabha MP Babu Lal Nishad and former Union Minister Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, both from the Nishad community. If the BJP decides to make a Brahmin a state president, the potential candidates include former Deputy Chief Minister and Rajya Sabha MP Dinesh Sharma, party general secretary and MLC Govind Narayan Shukla, Gautam Budh Nagar MP Mahesh Sharma and former MP Harish Dwivedi. The BJP is also eyeing Dalit voters, especially the influential Sonkar sub -caste spread from Eastern to Western Uttar Pradesh.
State president election only after national president
In this context, the name of former MP and former state general secretary Vidyasagar Sonkar is being considered. Many non-Jatav Dalit leaders are also being told in the claim. On contact, BJP state spokesperson Harishchandra Srivastava told PTI-language that the organizational election process in BJP follows the order from booth to mandal and then district. Only after these elections, members of the State Council elect the state president. He further said that after the elections are completed in more than half the districts, the central leadership of the party will announce the program through the nominated election officer and according to that the state president will be elected. Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary, an OBC (Jat) is the current state president, who was appointed in August 2022. The move was seen as an attempt to re -organize the caste equations of the party in western Uttar Pradesh.
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