Yogi to inaugurate BJP state working committee meeting, several UP union ministers likely to attend

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will inaugurate the Bharatiya Janata Party State Working Committee meeting in Lucknow on Sunday. The party is expected to discuss plans to accelerate outreach to its beneficiaries ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Several UP union ministers, government ministers of Yogi Adityanath, lawmakers and party officials will attend the state work committee meeting, the first after Yogi won a second term in the elections in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly in 2022 in March.

The Scientific Convention Center will be the venue for the meeting.

Uttar Pradesh BJP General Secretary Govind Narayan Shukla said BJP Head of State Swatantra Dev Singh held a meeting of party leaders and general secretaries to finalize the agenda for the working committee.

Among those who attended the preparatory meeting were Radha Mohan Singh, Head of UP BJP, State General Secretary (Organization) Sunil Bansal, Joint General Secretary (Organization) Karamvir, General Secretary of the State and UP Minister JPS Rathore, Secretaries General Govind Narayan Shukla, Ashwini. Tyagi, Amar Pal Maurya, Subrat Pathak, Anoop Gupta and Priyanka Rawat.

Swatantra Dev Singh will chair the state working committee meeting, the party leaders confirmed, adding that the new head of state would be appointed after the meeting.

There was earlier buzz that the new BJP head of state could be named on Saturday. Swatantra Dev Singh is Minister Jal Shakti and Head of House in the UP Legislative Council. In line with the principle of one man, one post in the BJP, he asked the party leadership to relieve him of the position of leader of the UP BJP.

The BJP will also hold a series of events to mark the completion of eight years of Modi rule at the Center.