New Delhi , July 17 : Uttar Pradesh BJP chief Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the national capital on Wednesday, sources said.
The meeting came amid a review in the party of its performance in the Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh, with its leaders pointing to various factors for the party performing far below its expectations in the crucial Hindi heartland state.
Chaudhary is learnt to have briefed the Prime Minister on the party's organisational matters. The sources said the meeting lasted for about an hour.
While the BJP is looking to address various factors so as to put up a strong show in the 2027 assembly polls, the immediate challenge for the party is 10 assembly by-polls in the state for which Election Commission has not yet announced a date.
There is speculation that the Samajawadi Party (SP) and Congress will have an alliance for these bypolls also.
Samajwadi Party won 37 seats in Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha polls and BJP won 33 seats. Congress won six seats in the state in alliance with the Samajwadi Party.
Chaudhary and Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya met BJP president JP Nadda separately on Tuesday. Chaudhary is learnt have apprised him about reasons for the party's poor performance.
Sources said BJP central leadership is taking feedback from various leaders on the party's poor performance in the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh.
Opposition leaders have talked of dissonance in ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh following the results of Lok Sabha polls.
They commented on a post by Office of Keshav Prasad Maurya that "organisation is bigger than the government".
However, Maurya retorted to Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav's jibe at the party and said that the BJP is strong at the state level and national level and will win the 2027 assembly polls. "Sapa Bahadur Shri Akhilesh Yadav ji, BJP has a strong organization and government, both at national level and state level, SP's PDA is a fraud. The return of SP's hooliganism in UP is impossible, BJP will repeat 2017 in the 2027 assembly elections," Maurya said in a post on X on Wednesday.
Earlier, the post by Maurya's office had caused a flutter in political circles. Maurya, who is seen as a leader who has risen from the ranks, talked of the pain of party workers. "The organization is bigger than the government, the pain of the workers is my pain. No one is bigger than the organization, the workers are the pride," Office of Keshav Prasad Maurya said in a post on X.
Maurya is into his second term as the Deputy CM of the state. In 2017, he was the state BJP chief when the party registered a spectacular victory in assembly polls and won 312 seats. Following the victory, Yogi Adityanth was chosen as the Chief Minister. (ANI)
