New Delhi: A key meeting between the Uttar Pradesh government and the BJP's ideological mentor Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS will be held this evening at the house of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Sources said today's meeting will be attended by RSS leader Arun Kumar, BJP leader Dharampal Singh, state BJP chief Bhupendra Chaudhary, the Chief Minister and both his deputies.
The meeting, said to be meant for better coordination to carry government to the people, comes as the state unit has geared up for assembly by-polls on 10 seats although no dates have been announced yet.
The state's ruling party had won 33 seats on its own -- 29 short of the 62 seats it won in 2019.
Keshav Maurya, a leader of the Other Backward classes and frontrunner for the Chief Minister post in 2017, had reiterated that the party's organisation is bigger than the government.
Days later, he had heaped praise on Yogi Adityanath, calling him the best Chief Minister in the country. Addressing party workers in Mirzapur on Sunday, he also said the party's "double-engine" is doing the best work in the country.
"The BJP is in power in the country as well as in the state. People know and believe that our double-engine government is doing the best work in the country. Is there any other leader like PM (Narendra) Modi in the world, and is there any other CM like Yogi Adityanath in the country?" he had said.
Today's meeting will be crucial in the backdrop of upcoming assembly by-polls on 10 seats in Uttar Pradesh although no dates have been announced yet.
The BJP has been on an overdrive in the state since the Lok Sabha election setback. The party is determined to regain lost ground