No Plans for Cabinet Rejig, Says BJP’s UP In-charge After Meeting Guv Amid Reshuffle Buzz

Lucknow: BJP national vice-president and Uttar Pradesh in-charge Radha Mohan Singh on Sunday dismissed the possibility of a cabinet reshuffle in the Yogi Adityanath government. His remarks came after a meeting with Governor Anandiben Patel here, which he described as a formality.

Asked about the possibility of a reshuffle in Uttar Pradesh, Singh told reporters “there is nothing as such”. “After becoming the (party’s) in-charge of UP, I have not met the Governor. When she was the chief minister (of Gujarat), I was the Agriculture minister, I had an old association with Gujarat. Since, I could not meet her in the past six months, hence I met her today. This was a personal meeting and a formality,” Singh said.

He said the Uttar Pradesh government and the organisation are moving very strongly. “The strongest organisation and most popular government are working in UP,” Singh said.

The BJP, which has begun working on its poll strategy ahead of the 2022 elections in UP, will do a strength and weakness analysis and also prepare individual report cards of the leaders, sources told CNN-News18.

Performance will be the biggest benchmark for getting a BJP ticket, sources said, adding that the party’s top leadership is in favour of individual surveys of MLAs.

As was the case in West Bengal, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP National President JP Nadda will make monthly visits to the big poll bound state to check the poll preparedness.

While rumours have been travelling through political circles about the chief ministerial face of the approaching elections, the BJ seem to have settled one issue: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath remains the unchallenged leader of the BJP in the state and will be leading the party into the UP) elections in 2022

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