Stepping up its preparations for the 2027 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, the BJP has decided to launch an extensive outreach exercise to bring influential people from different walks of life into its fold and reconnect with sulking party leaders who have allegedly been neglected over the years.
District presidents have been asked to prepare these lists by collecting inputs from each mandal under their jurisdiction, identifying potential entrants, neglected former party functionaries and influential personalities who could be approached as part of the outreach exercise. All such lists will be forwarded to the state party headquarters where senior leaders will examine them and take a further call. National general secretary and UP in-charge Vinod Tawde and state general secretary (organisation) Dharampal Singh were also present in the meeting. The meeting also decided to identify former district presidents, MLAs, MPs and other old party functionaries who have remained inactive or feel neglected. Party leaders will personally contact them, address their grievances and bring them back into active organisational work.
The district presidents were asked to prepare separate lists of people interested in joining the party, categorising them into those willing to join without seeking an assembly ticket and those aspiring to contest the 2027 polls. Saturday’s organisational meeting came a day after Union home minister Amit Shah, addressing the BJP state executive committee meeting in Lucknow on Friday, laid down the party’s political and organisational agenda for the 2027 assembly elections.
Party workers attending the deliberations said the BJP was now fully in election mode, with the leadership focusing on strengthening its organisational base, expanding its social outreach and ensuring that no influential leader or potential supporter remained outside its engagement network. A decision in this regard was taken at the BJP’s organisational meeting chaired by state party president Pankaj Chaudhary here on Saturday.
