Now, BJP president JP Nadda praises UP CM Yogi Adityanath amid reports of dissension

Tribune News Service
New Delhi, July 16

After Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP president JP Nadda today credited Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath with turning Uttar Pradesh into one of the “leading states” in the country. Nadda also exhorted state leaders and cadres to ensure welfare schemes and programmes reached people at the grassroots level during a meeting aimed at connecting workers from different districts and sharpening the party strategy, including its strong point, the booth-level, ahead of the 2022 Assembly elections.

Priyanka: Constitution being destroyed

• Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday kickstarted the UP campaign, alleging that the Constitution and democracy were under attack in the state.
• “The attacks on the Constitution are not new here. These trends have continued for the past several years.” she alleged.
• She sat on a fast against the “recent attacks on democracy in the state, where nominees for district and block-level polls were not permitted to enter the fray.”
• She questioned the Prime Minister for lauding Yogi Adityanath. TNS

However, Adityanath’s detractors also pointed their “hesitancy” over clearly naming him the CM face for the upcoming elections next year, alluding to a “continuing tussle/resistance from a section of the state leadership, including from Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya”. Regarding the PM’s very public praise for Adityanath, they argued that the “PM is bound to praise his CM on a public platform”.

Meanwhile, Nadda, in his address, said four years ago, the state was “afflicted by appeasement politics”, where a particular caste used to get benefits and the other faced harassment. Once a “BIMARU”, UP is now known for ease of doing business, he said, adding that a curfew was a common thing in the past but there had not been a single riot under the BJP government. “There was nothing in the name of development. It had become a centre of casteism, nepotism, and corruption. Today, we can say with pride that in four years, UP has become one of the leading states of the country,” he said.