NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh BJP president Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, sources said and is believed to have briefed him on a host of issues related to the party’s organisational matters in the politically crucial state.Chaudhary and the state’s Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya had met BJP national president J P Nadda separately on Tuesday amid signs of dissonant voices emerging from within the party in the state where it suffered shock losses in the Lok Sabha polls at the hands of the SP-Congress alliance.Maurya’s differences with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath are widely acknowledged even within the party, and his comment at a state party meeting that “organisation is always bigger than government and no one can be bigger than the organisation” was seen by many political watchers as a message to the monk-politician.He had made the remarks in presence of Adityanath and Nadda, while the chief minister blamed “over-confidence” for the electoral reverses in the state and suggested that the party could not effectively counter the opposition INDIA bloc’s campaign.With the party’s top brass speaking to Maurya and Chaudhary, considered a sober and objective voice, they seem to be taking steps to put their house in order against a resurgent opposition in the state, which has been critical to the BJP’s rise as the dominant national force since the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.The deputy chief minister further stirred the pot on Wednesday after his office handle posted his comment on organisation being bigger than the government.
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