Ahead of U.P. poll, Adityanath’s sampoorna cult tests BJP’s Sangathan Sarvopari doctrine

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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. | Photo Credit: ANI

In the run-up to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s State Executive Committee meeting in Lucknow last month, a former party MP from western Uttar Pradesh, seen as a protégé of the Centre, came up with a social media hashtag: ‘Sangathan Sarvopari (Organisation is Supreme)’. Soon, the comments section filled with remarks, all with the same underlying message: “Don’t say this in Lucknow!”

With the Assembly election about four months away, the perceived tussle between the party organisation and the bureaucracy in the ruling dispensation has surfaced again. During the meeting in Lucknow, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath stunned the audience when he claimed that the names of nearly 1.27 crore (12.7 million) Hindu voters were missing from the rolls. He repeated the claim during a television interview on November 8, saying U.P. had filed a plea before the Election Commission of India over the issue.

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