After the BJP Working Committee meeting in Lucknow on July 14, there is a lot of political activity in Uttar Pradesh. It is as if Deputy CMs Keshavprasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak have given an open challenge to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. It is not right to call it a rebellion because these people are not rebelling against the party nor are they making statements against the Chief Minister. Just making the Chief Minister realize his power. Keshav Prasad Maurya has shared his photo with about 43 MLAs, two MLCs and about 10 ministers on social media in 10 days. If this is not an open challenge, what else can it be?
Everything was not going well in Uttar Pradesh BJP after losing the Lok Sabha elections. When Yogi Adityanath called his first cabinet meeting after the election results, both the Deputy CMs remained missing. But it was as if Maurya blew the trumpet in the BJP working committee meeting. The matter reached Delhi. The matter reached the court of BJP President JP Nadda and PM Narendra Modi, but no change was seen in the behavior of both the Deputy CMs of the state. Even after Delhi’s intervention, both the Deputy CMs are leaving no opportunity to harm the honor of Yogi Adityanath.
Nearly 43 MLAs and 10 ministers reached Keshav’s camp office in 10 days.
So far, around 43 MLAs, two MLCs and 10 ministers have come to meet Keshav Prasad Maurya’s camp office after the 14th. Of these, 3 are Union Ministers. Apart from this, there are several dozen state MPs, former MPs and former MLAs who met him. People from state level and district level organizations are also meeting him continuously. The biggest thing is that this work is not being done secretly. In such circumstances, when there is a power struggle going on between two powerful people, the MLAs and ministers do not openly side with any group. But photo session is going on every day in the camp office of Keshav Prasad Maurya. It simply means that Maurya is trying to show how many people in the party are with him. Only he can tell better whether this show of strength is for the Centre, for Yogi Adityanath or for both. Given below are the names of those MLAs with whom Keshav Prasad Maurya has posted his photo on his X handle. It is not necessary that these MLAs should be with Keshav Prasad Maurya, it is also possible that these MLAs may side with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath if the opportunity arises. It is also possible that just as these people have gone to meet Keshav Prasad Maurya at his camp office, they have also gone to meet CM Yogi at his office. But politics is a game of symbols. This is what Keshav Prasad is doing. Let’s see how much success they get.
Names of those honorable people who reached Keshav Prasad Maurya’s camp office from July 14 to July 24, with whom the Deputy CM has clicked photos and posted them on social media:
Legislator-
1- Mahesh Chandra Gupta
2-Ajay Singh
3-Anil Kumar Maurya
4-Krishna Paswan
5-Akash Saxena
6- Rajeev Tarara
7-Suresh Pasi
8-Mahendra Singh Kharagvanshi
9-Manish Rawat
10-Ashutosh Maurya
11-Surendra Chaudhary
12-Umesh Dwivedi
13-Gauri Shankar Verma
14-Bhagwan Singh Kushwaha
15-Devendra Pratap Singh
16-Kailash Singh Rajput
17-Pawan Singh Chauhan
18-Ramchandra Yadav
19-Ashok Kumar
20-DC Verma
21-P.N. Reader
22-Sushil Kumar Shakya
23-Amit Singh Chauhan
24-Moolchandra Niranjan
25-Lakshmi Raj Singh
26-Surendra Chaurasia
27-Shalabh Mani Tripathi
28- Sabha Kunwar Kushwaha
29-Deepak Kumar Mishra
30-Ashwani Tyagi
31-Poonam Shankhwar
32-Lalji Prasad Nirmal
33-Vikas Gupta
34-Subhash Tripathi
35-Piyush Ranjan Nishad
36-Sitaram Verma
37-Ramakrishna Bhargava
38-Ajay Singh
39-Ommani Verma
40-Surendra Kushwaha
41-Ganesh Singh Chauhan
42-Mukesh Chaudhary
43-Surendra Maithani
44-Bahoran Lal Maurya (Legislative Council Member)
45-Hansraj Vishwakarma ji (Legislative Council Member)
Ministers-
1-Cabinet Minister Dr. Sanjay Nishad
2-Minister of State Narendra Kashyap
3-Cabinet Minister Dara Singh Chauhan
4-Cabinet Minister Om Prakash Rajbhar
5-Surya Pratap Shahi
6- Minister of State Vijayalakshmi Gautam
7- Manohar Lal “Mannu Kori”
8-Minister of State (Independent Charge) Narendra Kumar Kashyap
9-Union Minister of State for Finance Shri Pankaj Choudhary (Union Minister)
10-Union Minister of State Shri Kamlesh Paswan (Union Minister)
MP-
1- Kanwar Singh Tanwar
2- Naveen Jain
3- Jagdambika Pal
Keshav and Pathak do not tag Yogi for the work being done in the state
When Keshav Prasad Maurya shares photos and information about Uttar Pradesh government related works, development works etc. on X, he does not tag the Uttar Pradesh government or the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. In this matter, both the Deputy CMs of the state, Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak are playing a trick. Even for actions related to their cabinet, both of them tag PM Modi, BJP, etc. but completely avoid CM Yogi Adityanath or UP government. Along with this, both the Deputy CMs continuously retweet the tweets of PM Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and JP Nadda but never even forget to retweet the tweets of Yogi Adityanath. Even if it is any topic related to Uttar Pradesh government.
Another Deputy CM Brajesh Pathak also follows the path of Keshav Prasad Maurya and does not tag Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in any of his tweets, whether related to Uttar Pradesh or not. This clearly shows that the relations of both the Deputy CMs with CM Yogi Adityanath are not cordial.