In recent comments, Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya has said that the party enjoys paramount status over the government, fuelling speculation about internal dynamics within the state unit of the BJP. The office of the Deputy CM has shared the statement on social media, voicing his stand taken during a meeting by the BJP working committee in Lucknow.
"The organisation is bigger than the government, the pain of the workers is my pain. No one is bigger than the organisation, the workers are the pride," he assured the gathering emphatically, thus reiterating his commitment to the grass roots members of the party.
He went on to reiterate further, "The organisation was bigger than the government and will always be bigger. The doors of my residence at 7 Kalidas Marg are open to everyone. I am Deputy Chief Minister later but first I am a worker."
Maurya's statement has come out after he met BJP president J P Nadda in New Delhi amid continued speculations about his relationship with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Though Maurya met the BJP president neither he nor the BJP commented on the meeting, maintaining a conspicuous silence. The silence has been reciprocated by senior BJP leaders, including Uttar Pradesh Minister Swatantra Dev Singh and Finance Minister Suresh Khanna.
The opposition leader of the Samajwadi Party, Akhilesh Yadav, seized on this perceived discord in the BJP camp to charge the latter with having a fued that only works to the detriment of Uttar Pradesh residents' welfare. "In this fight for power, it is the people of Uttar Pradesh who are suffering," Yadav said during a press briefing at the SP headquarters earlier today.
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