For 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections a look at BJP's strategy , Bharatiya Janata Party, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Rajnath Singh, Keshav Prasad Maurya, UP Polls 2017
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For 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections a look at BJP's strategy , Bharatiya Janata Party, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Rajnath Singh, Keshav Prasad Maurya, UP Polls 2017
After the good showing in Assam Assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is eyeing the state of Uttar Pradesh and has begun preparing for it.
The UP polls are scheduled to be held in 2017 and is crucial for the BJP in many ways.
As per a report, BJP chief Amit Shah is already busy chalking out his party's tactics. In order to get the caste mathematics right in the Hindi heartland, Keshav Prasad Maurya was roped in as party's state unit president with an eye on the backward vote bank.
This is said to be the first move of 'social engineering' the BJP is keen to get right in the state.
Moreover, BJP reportedly decided to send Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi to Rajya Sabha from Jharkhand and bring Shiv Pratap Shukla, a known Brahmin face of the party in UP, in his place because of caste equations.
In the past, in the last ten years, 80 to 90 percent of BJPs district chiefs in Uttar Pradesh have came from forward caste (Brahmin or Thakur). Now, in a sign of changing times, out of the latest list of 94 district presidents, 44 belong to backward or extremely backward castes, 29 are Brahmins, 10 Thakurs, nine Vaishyas and four Dalits, as per the website.
UP has 35 percent vote of Yadav, Jatav and Muslim combine.
For the BJP, remaining 65 percent of vote share is what they would be hoping to tap into and thus the move to strike a balance between backward and forward vote bank.
As per the report, the BJP is also planning to dent BSP's core vote bank.