According to state BJP OBC Morcha and Yogi Minister Narendra Kashyap, discussions at the meeting would focus on bringing out a solution to reinforce the party’s footprint amongst the OBCs. He said it was imperative to ascertain why the OBCs did not consolidate behind the BJP in the recent Lok Sabha polls like they did earlier.Kashyap, who met CM Yogi on Wednesday to invite him to the meeting, said that the state government had been working relentlessly for the backward classes.Significantly, the BJP’s social engineering, based on the support of non-Yadav OBC and non-Jatav SC, failed to impress the voters in the Lok Sabha elections.Though the party attributes it to fear mongering by the opposition among OBC and SC voters over the false narrative of ‘change in Constitution’ to ‘do away with reservation,’ it needs a thorough brainstorming for course correction.BJP sources said the meeting is expected to be attended by over 400 key functionaries from all six regions of the state. Discussions would also be held around the upcoming rural local bodies elections due in 2025 as well as the 2027 state assembly polls.The meet also assumes significance in the wake of the ongoing rumblings in the UP unit of the party with Deputy CM Keshav Maurya trying to take a line contrarian to CM Yogi while finding the reason for the party’s debacle.
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