BJP will contest UP 2022 under Yogi’s leadership
that every CM, irrespective of party affiliation, faces. Since the elections in the state are fewer than nine months away, the RSS and the BJP leadership have started increasing their activity in the state as the results of UP are extremely crucial for the BJP at a national level too. You will see many more such visits by national leaders in the coming days, but that does not mean that these visits are being taken in wake of any ‘turmoil’ within the party,” the former Union Minister said.
He also said that there was zero per cent truth in the “news” that Adityanath and Uttar Pradesh BJP in-charge Radha Mohan Singh were not speaking to each other. “Not many are aware that the two have known each other closely for over 20 years from the time when Yogi became MP for the first time in 1998. They are ardent followers of Mahant Avaidyanath. In fact, they speak to each other at least thrice daily in view of the 2022 elections,” he said.
Commenting on Uttar Pradesh’s government’s handling of Covid-19 fallout which, according to many political observers, was one of the primary reasons behind the recent political developments, a Lucknowbased confidant of the CM said no government, either Central or the state, can claim that they were able to completely handle the second surge.
“The population of UP is known to everyone and due to that we faced limitations when it came to medical supplies and hospital beds. I am not going to deny that people faced problems, but you need to look at the overall picture. We have ensured maximum testing in the country, the figure for the same is more than 5 crore now, with at least 3 lakh tests every day. When people are comparing our medical infrastructure, they need to compare pre- Covid times and post-covid times. We have ensured ventilator beds in every district now. There is a whole set of data on this which will prove the amount of effort that the state government has put in to augment our medical infrastructure in the last one-and-a-half-years,” he said.