Lucknow: After facing crucial defeat in last year’s by-election in parliamentary constituency seat in Gorakhpur that is considered as hub of Yogi Adityanath but Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is looking for strong face in upcoming elections coming closer for Achilles’ heel.
As we all know that Gorakhpur is considered as prestigious seat not only for UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath, who has won five terms an MP from there, but also for the BJP.
Now, what worries the party is that it lost to the Samajwadi Party even though it was a strong seat of Yogi Adityanath has showered spots to the tune of over Rs 25,000 crore.
The BJP leadership is of the view that only a powerful face should be fielded to regain the lost fort as, since 1989, a representative of the famous Gorakhpur Peeth has been winning from this constituency and it was first time since 1989, when the party lost. Many even attribute this to the fact that someone from outside the peeth fought the byelection.
Sources say that the BJP is in a dilemma whether to field Yogi Adityanath to redeem its fiefdom in the coming elections. But, the counterview in the party is that is if the Chief Minister contested an election, who would lead the campaign in the state.
BJP looks for strong face after tasting defeating in Yogi Adityanath home ground:
Meanwhile, the BKJP dose not want to repeat the bypoll situation of loss in the general elections against the alliance.
On other hand, the BJP is working and holding negotiations with a powerful leader of the Nishad community in damage control mode, who as of now owe allegiance to the opposition party as the Samajwadi Party candidate Pravin Nishad defeated his rival opposition contestant Upendra Dutt Shukla in the bypoll.
The Nishads community are the highest and dominant community, followed by Dalits, Brahmins and Muslims in Gorakhpur Lok Sabha seat which is considered as the main and prestigious region of Sfron Party.
The BJP has realised that with a formidable SP-BSP alliance, its victory maybe difficult if Nishads remain in the rival camp.
Now during Prime Minister’s Narendra Modi scheduled visit to Gorakhpur city on February 24th to launch a series of development projects, BJP managers are learnt to be working overtime to win over leraders from the Nishad Party headed by Sanjay Nishad and the family Vishambhar Nishad.
Vishambhar Nishad, a powerful Nishad leader and former minister, had died in a road accident and his wife Rajmati Devi is Samajwadi Party MLA.
