Senior BJP leader in UP for

‘feedback’, meets Yogi ministers

Santhosh's two-day visit to the state comes amidst growing murmurs in the
organisation regarding the handling of the Covid second surge, with several
BJP ministers and MLAs going public about the leadership being
irresponsive to the people's woes.
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Written by Maulshree Seth | Lucknow |
Updated: June 1, 2021 7:59:37 am

BL Santhosh held meetings with ministers, met CM

IN THE first such development since Yogi Adityanath came to power in Uttar Pradesh in
2017, BJP national general secretary (organisation) B L Santhosh on Monday held one-on-one
meetings with ministers and party leaders in Lucknow, followed by a meeting with the Chief
Minister at his residence.
Santhosh’s two-day visit to the state comes amidst growing murmurs in the organisation
regarding the handling of the Covid second surge, with several BJP ministers and MLAs going
public about the leadership being irresponsive to the people’s woes. The BJP is also stinging
from the poor performance in the recent panchayat polls, after the party had itself portrayed them
as a semi-final before the Assembly elections next year.
There are rumours in Lucknow about an imminent reshuffle in the state Cabinet.
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Sources said Santhosh asked leaders for their feedback on the functioning of different
departments, works undertaken during Covid, the issues that remained problematic, and the
strategy the party should adopt to reach out to the masses. He was reportedly told about the lack
of coordination between the BJP and government, as well as the inability of even party leaders to
get work done from the bureaucracy.
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Leaders said Santhosh met about seven ministers, including Health Minister Jai Pratap Singh,
Medical Education and Finance Minister Suresh Khanna and Law Minister Brijesh Pathak.
Pathak incidentally was among the first in the BJP to raise concerns over Covid management in
the second wave.
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Among those present at the meetings were BJP Uttar Pradesh in-charge Radha Mohan Singh,
state party president Swatantra Dev Singh and state general secretary in-charge of organisation
Sunil Bansal.
On Tuesday, Santhosh is expected to meet other ministers of the government, including Deputy
CMs, Dinesh Sharma and Keshav Prasad Maurya.
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Sources said the meetings are an attempt by the BJP to placate leaders by providing them a
platform to vent their views. A senior leader said, “In the past, there used to be collective
meetings in the presence of the CM, but this time, a leader of the organisation like him is taking
one-to-one meetings with ministers and taking direct feedback from them. There were some
issues of coordination between the organisation and government, which were being constantly
raised by leaders, which were discussed during the meeting.”