Causing a stir in the political corridors Uttar Pradesh deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya has said the party is bigger than the government, a cryptic remark on X that has fuelled speculation over a “rift” in the Bharatiya Janata Party state unit.
“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,” the post shared by the office of the deputy CM on X said.
“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 said in the meeting.
He also urged all the ministers, MLAs, and public representatives to respect party workers.
Maurya’s post comes a day after he met BJP president J P Nadda in New Delhi amidst rumours of an alleged rift between him and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
Neither the BJP nor Maurya said anything about the meeting while senior BJP leaders, including Uttar Pradesh Minister Swatantra Dev Singh and finance minister Suresh Khanna, have also remained mum.
Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has alleged “infighting” in the BJP and claimed it was harming people’s welfare.
“In this fight for power, it is the people of Uttar Pradesh who are suffering,” Yadav told reporters at the SP headquarters here earlier in the day.
भाजपा की कुर्सी की लड़ाई की गर्मी में, उप्र में शासन-प्रशासन ठंडे बस्ते में चला गया है।
तोड़फोड़ की राजनीति का जो काम भाजपा दूसरे दलों में करती थी, अब वही काम वो अपने दल के अंदर कर रही है, इसीलिए भाजपा अंदरूनी झगड़ों के दलदल में धंसती जा रही है।
जनता के बारे में सोचनेवाला…
— Akhilesh Yadav (@yadavakhilesh) July 17, 2024
“In the BJP’s fight for power, governance and administration in UP has been put on the back burner. The BJP used to sabotage other parties but now the same is happening with it. The BJP is sinking into a quagmire of internal conflicts. No one in the BJP thinks about the public,” Yadav said in a post in Hindi on X
