Target 80 Seats: UP CM Yogi Adityanath Sets Goal For 2024

| Updated: 01 August, 2022 1:23 am IST

UP CM Yogi Adityanath (right) met revered saint Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Swami Rambhadracharya Ji Maharaj in Chitrakoot

NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh Chief minister Yogi Adityanath asked the party leaders in Chitrakoot today to bridge the communication gap with the electorate and work to ensure BJP wins 80 seats from the state in the 2024 general election. CM Yogi was addressing the party leaders on the last day of the three-day training camp in Chitrakoot.

UP’s Deputy Chief ministers Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak, state party president Swatantra Dev Singh, state BJP general secretary (organisation) Sunil Bansal and Uttar Pradesh cabinet ministers participated in the meeting.

In the three-day training camp, participants from across the state were trained about effective communication tools so that the communication gap is bridged.

BJP MLA Pankaj Singh, who participated in the meeting, told The New Indian, “We have made a pledge that we have to work to ensure the party wins 80 seats in the state. Under the leadership of Prime minister Narendra Modi and Chief minister Yogi Adityanath, the state is witnessing a corruption-free government which is working for the welfare of the poor. We are very confident that we will achieve the target.”

The party’s best-ever performance in Lok Sabha in the state has been in 2014 when it won 71 seats of the 80 seats in the state. Its ally Apna Dal had won two more seats.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, two main parties of Uttar Pradesh, SP and BSP, had allied but could not dent BJP much as it had won 62 seats. Victory in the recent by-polls in Azamgarh and Rampur had given BJP a shot in the arm.

A BJP leader from Lucknow, who attended the meeting in Chitrakoot, told The New Indian, “If you look at the current state of opposition parties and the popularity of Prime minister (Narendra Modi) and Chief minister (Yogi Adityanath), winning 80 seats in the state will not be impossible. CM Yogi Adityanath’s emphasis was on how to bring more and more people under welfare schemes.”

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been talking about ‘labharthi warg’ (beneficiary class) in his speeches lately and asking the party workers to ensure the welfare schemes reach all the needy people.