The BJP management has warned celebration MPs in Uttar Pradesh to not maintain any conferences primarily based on caste groupings, in what seems to be an try to curb caste-based factionalism throughout the celebration forward of the 2027 meeting polls.
The warning in opposition to such gatherings was publicly issued by newly appointed UP BJP chief Pankaj Chaudhary on Thursday, two days after a number of of the celebration’s Brahmin MLAs and MLCs gathered on the residence of Kushinagar MLA PN Pathak in Lucknow to debate allegations of bias in opposition to the Brahmin neighborhood within the state.
In a harsh assertion, Chaudhary warned that the assembly was “in opposition to the celebration’s structure and values” and that any recurrence of such occasions sooner or later could be thought-about a “breach of self-discipline”.
The BJP chief stated it was not only a single assembly of celebration MLAs and MLCs from the Brahmin neighborhood that pressured the management to react. “Earlier than the Brahmin MPs’ assembly with dinner on Tuesday, one other assembly of Bharatiya Janata Social gathering MLAs and MPs from western UP was held over lunch at a resort in Lucknow on the identical day. The individuals of this assembly are thought-about to be opponents of the Jat celebration management in western UP. The assembly didn’t appeal to consideration as there have been no images,” the celebration chief stated.
In accordance with BJP sources, Tuesday’s assembly was referred to as by some Brahmin celebration MPs.
From jap UP as a “present of power.” It was referred to as “Bharti Choka” dinner. Sources stated the assembly was additionally attended by a number of Bharatiya Janata Social gathering members from the Bhumihar and Kurmi factions.
“A two-page picture with the names and phone particulars of Bharatiya Janata Social gathering MLAs and MLCs who will likely be attending Tuesday’s dinner has gone viral on social media. These particulars had been collected to arrange a WhatsApp group for Brahmin MPs,” a Bharatiya Janata Social gathering official stated.
Sources stated the central management of the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering was upset by the assembly, and the workplace of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath additionally expressed displeasure. “Then, the BJP leaders contacted these members and pulled them up. They had been additionally given a warning,” the celebration chief stated.
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The assembly despatched ripples by state politics, with opposition events claiming that “all the things went fallacious” throughout the ruling celebration.
“The warning to the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering’s state meeting members is aimed toward stopping potential formation of caste-based factions amongst celebration leaders who might later exert stress and negotiate for tickets and ministerial slots in the course of the 2027 meeting polls. Formation of such stress teams might injury the celebration within the elections,” stated one other celebration chief.
“The resentment amongst some Thakur factions over the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering’s ticket distribution has price the celebration a number of seats within the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, even because the celebration tried to include the anger by holding roadshows and Thakur management conferences,” he stated.
In August this yr, a casual assembly of a number of Thakur MLAs of the BJP was held in Lucknow. On why the celebration didn’t subject a warning to those MLAs, the celebration chief stated, “At the moment, the celebration management was busy holding organizational elections. Now the BJP has Pankaj Chaudhary as the brand new state president and thru him the celebration management was making an attempt to cease the formation of such particular caste teams within the celebration. If anybody crosses the road, he must face motion.”
He stated the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering can be offended as a result of at a time when all celebration MPs and MLAs have been directed by the state Election Fee (EC) to oversee the continuing Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll, these MPs held a gathering on one other subject, garnering media consideration and giving the Opposition a contemporary alternative to go after the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering authorities.
Bharatiya Janata Social gathering’s Samajwadi Social gathering (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav was focused in a submit
Akhilesh additionally asserted that below the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering’s rule, individuals are not affected by ‘bharti chokha’ however solely ‘maati dhokha’ (mud and betrayal), including that no society can tolerate when the issue escalates from ‘upeksha’ (ignorance) to ‘tiraskar’ (contempt).
State Congress spokesperson Surendra Rajput claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering has all the time performed “divisive politics” alongside caste and spiritual strains. “For the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering, it’s acceptable for the Thakur Individuals’s Liberation Military to carry a gathering. However the warning goes out solely to the Brahmin Individuals’s Liberation Military. It’s true that the Brahmin Individuals’s Liberation Military will not be getting respect and they’re going to lose within the subsequent elections. Just one caste guidelines in UP,” he stated.
Of the 258 Bharatiya Janata Social gathering MLAs in UP, 84 are from Different Backward Lessons (OBC), 59 from Scheduled Castes (SC), 45 from Thakur, 42 from Brahmins and 28 from different higher castes (Vaishya, Kayastha, Punjabi, Khatri).
Of the 79 BJP MLCs within the state, 26 are from OBC backgrounds, 23 from Thakur backgrounds, 14 from Brahmins, two from SCs, two from Muslims and 12 from different higher castes. .
In December 2021, weeks earlier than the 2022 UP meeting polls had been introduced, the BJP had constituted a four-member committee to formulate the celebration’s technique and applications aimed toward supporting the Brahmin neighborhood. The committee was arrange after the celebration acquired suggestions from the sphere suggesting that the Opposition, below the BJP’s sanction, had “some success” in sending out the message that Brahmins will not be getting “due respect and illustration” within the state.
