Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday entrusted Ministers with the responsibility of supervising the bypolls to 10 Assembly seats and to stay for two nights in a week in the respective constituencies.
The Chief Minister also asked the Ministers and leaders of party organisations to be active on social media to counter the negative campaign of the Opposition and the false narrative spread by INDIA Bloc parties.
The Chief Minister has constituted a team of 30 Cabinet Ministers and Ministers of State to supervise the bypolls to 10 UP Assembly seats. The Ministers are from the Bharatiya Janata Party and allies Rashtriya Lok Dal and NISHAD Party.
The Chief Minister presided over a meeting of the Ministers and leaders of the party organisation. Three Ministers each have been given the responsibility of supervising the elections in the 10 Assembly seats going to bypolls.
Yogi has specifically directed the Ministers to focus the attention on the preparations at the polling booth level and be in constant touch with the cadre and grassroot party workers. He said the party worker was the top priority and asked the Ministers in-charge of the poll bound 10 Assembly seats to meet the party workers, ascertain their problems and facilitate them in discharging their responsibility during the elections.
The CM said the party workers should feel assured that both the government and the party organisation was solidly behind them.
The meeting also discussed the measures to be taken for busting the false narrative of inflation, unemployment, abrogation of Constitution and caste-based reservation for the SC, ST and OBCs. He said the false narrative of amendment to the Constitution for abrogating the reservations need to be particularly busted.
The chief minister asked the ministers to apprise the voters of the 10 assembly constituencies about the effective measures taken by the present BJP government for toning up the law and order, elimination of mafia and organised gang of criminals. He also emphasised that the electorate be made aware of the jungle law that prevailed in UP during the previous Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party government when the life and property of the common citizen was not safe and the women were particularly vulnerable.
Yogi Adityanath said besides ascertaining the problems faced by the party cadre, the ministers should meet the common people in their respective constituencies and redress their grievances.
The upcoming assembly by-elections in 10 crucial assembly constituencies in Uttar Pradesh will be both a challenge and an opportunity for the BJP that is trying hard to overcome the unexpected setback it suffered in the recent Lok Sabha elections in the state.
These bypolls are also being seen as a litmus test to the BJP’s standing in the state ahead of the crucial 2027 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. Their results will indicate whether the party has successfully energised its cadre and resolved internal issues, as it aimed to do during its one-day state executive meeting here on Sunday.
Nine assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh fell vacant after their MLAs, including Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, were elected to the Lok Sabha last month. Besides, SP MLA from Sisamau (Kanpur) Irfan Solanki was convicted in a criminal case and sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment and was disqualified from the membership of the state assembly.
The assembly seats for which bypolls will be conducted are: Karhal (Mainpuri), Khair (Aligarh), Kundarki (Moradabad), Katehari (Ambedkar Nagar), Phulpur (Prayagraj), Ghaziabad (Ghaziabad), Majhawan (Mirzapur), Meerapur (Bijnor), Milkipur (Ayodhya) and Sisamau (Kanpur).
Five of these seats – Karhal, Kundarki, Katehari, Milkipur and Sisamau – were held by the SP, while the BJP held three – Khair, Phulpur, and Ghaziabad – and its ally, the NISHAD Party, and the Rashtriya Lok Dal had won Majhawan and Meerapur seats respectively.
Though these are only bypolls, the BJP has a lot at stake in these elections and is thus leaving no stone unturned in its quest to secure a decisive victory.
