Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya. (Photograph from X)
By-elections to 9 meeting seats are due on November 20. How assured are you in regards to the BJP’s displaying in these elections?The BJP is poised to win many of the 9 seats on the idea of organisational energy and achievements of the double-engine authorities within the state. We see struggle solely in a single or two seats.
Why do you assume that the result of the bypolls will likely be totally different from the Lok Sabha elections in UP (the BJP and its allies received solely 36 of the 80 seats within the state, down from the 64 they received in 2019, whereas the INDIA bloc received 43)? What has modified in over 5 months?It’s true that our celebration underperformed within the Lok Sabha polls within the state fairly opposite to our confidence and expectations. The Congress-led Opposition succeeded in deceptive voters with its false narratives. Now, their lies stand uncovered. Furthermore, the current outcomes of meeting elections in Haryana, the place the BJP has fashioned the federal government for the third consecutive time period, has given a befitting reply to the Opposition’s false narrative on points like Agniveer and efforts to amend the Structure.
CM Yogi Adityanath’s “batoge toh katoge” (if you’re divided, you may be reduce down) slogan is far in circulation today. How do you see this assertion?It won’t be correct for me to make any touch upon the chief minister’s assertion. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who’s our supreme chief, has given the slogan “Ek hai toh safe hai” (if you’re collectively, you’ll be secure). All of us toe this line solely. Our celebration has at all times talked of unity. The Opposition blows such statements out of context as a result of they need to do politics of Muslim appeasement.
Your assertion, given after the outcomes of the Lok Sabha polls that the “organisation is bigger than the government”, additionally drew a variety of consideration. Many interpreted it as being a sign of division between the celebration and the federal government. Do you continue to stand by the remark? Definitely. The organisation was greater than the federal government yesterday, it’s right this moment and will likely be tomorrow as nicely. It’s only by dint of exhausting work by the organisation that we’re in energy each within the state and on the Centre. This isn’t the primary time that I put the organisation above the federal government. Earlier than 2022 additionally, I stated the identical factor in a tweet . However this time, the assertion was misinterpreted with many believing that I used to be saying so within the gentle of opposed Lok Sabha polls leads to the state. However that was not true. I’m a disciplined soldier of my celebration. I like PM Modi who had the braveness of giving the decision for “sabka saath sabka vikas” (improvement for all). Can Rahul Gandhi or Akhilesh Yadav present such braveness?
Since 2017, the general public notion has been that every one is just not nicely between you and CM Yogi Adityanath. (Smiles) No, this isn’t true. I’ve glorious relations with the CM. We each took the oath collectively in 2017, he because the CM and me because the deputy CM. We’ve got been collectively since. That is the Opposition’s downside.
What will occur in 2027?We’ll repeat 2017 in 2027 by successful greater than 300 of the 403 seats
Will the BJP go to the polls in 2027 underneath the management of Yogi Adityanath once more?That is one thing outdoors my remit. I can’t remark.
As an vital OBC chief within the BJP, do you not aspire to an even bigger function within the state or in nationwide politics?Having an ambition and the celebration’s resolution are two various things. I’m a disciplined celebration employee and discharge any responsibility given to me with all diligence and honesty.
How do you see the Samajwadi Celebration’s PDA (pichde, Dalit and adivasi, an outreach geared toward backward courses and the scheduled courses and tribes) formulation?PDA is nothing however a Parivar Improvement Authority. Akhilesh Yadav (of the SP) is a person of no imaginative and prescient. His celebration is stuffed with criminals and goons. Good folks can’t survive in his celebration. Those that there right this moment will depart the celebration quickly. That is my prediction.
What about Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, who in a gathering in Rae Bareli just lately, remarked there he may see solely “sawarna” (higher caste) officers from the state authorities?If he’s such a well-wisher of SCs and OBCs, why doesn’t he appoint an individual from these castes because the Chief of Opposition within the Lok Sabha in his place? He must also nominate SCs and OBCs as celebration presidents in states. However he won’t ever do that. Each Rahul and Akhilesh are feudalists and power-hungry.