By Pankaj Shah
Lucknow: Hindutva and coordination of party high brass with ground-level organisational workers is learnt to have figured prominently in the ongoing discussions between CM Yogi Adityanath and RSS functionaries in UP as the BJP gears up for the assembly elections next year.
Sources privy to the meeting said that Yogi sought first-hand feedback from the Sangh leaders about the ground situation to identify gaps in booth-level organisation, social outreach and ideological messaging to counter opposition, primarily the Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance.
The meeting, experts said, blended Sangh (RSS), Sangathan (Organisation) and Sarkar (govt) — the three key elements driving BJP’s poll machinery and past electoral success. The RSS provides ideological grounding and a disciplined cadre network, the party organisation handles political mobilisation, and the govt delivers governance narratives.
Sources said that accompanied by UP BJP chief Pankaj Chaudhary and state general secretary (organisation) Dharam Pal Singh, Yogi attended coordination meetings in all the six organisational zones — West UP, Braj, Awadh, Bundelkhand-Kanpur, Kashi and Gorakhpur — in the past 10 days.
The emphasis on Hindutva has been a key to BJP’s political narrative in the past decade. For Yogi, a key Hindutva figure, reinforcing the ideological plank can consolidate the BJP’s core base, while countering the opposition’s attempts to build caste-based alliances, analysts said.This is the first time in Yogi’s second term that such extensive coordination meetings with RSS functionaries are being organised.
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