The UP defeat, especially in Yogi Adityanath’s home turf Gorakhpur, has made the BJP leadership sit up and take notice of the developments in this key state.
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet his senior cabinet colleagues to discuss the party’s bypoll debacle in Uttar Pradesh late Thursday evening.
The PM is also expected to discuss certain measures to break the logjam in the ongoing session of Parliament.
The meeting, source said, will analyse as to where BJP’s arithmetic has gone wrong besides other factors leading to the party’s defeat in Uttar Pradesh. Senior leaders who are like to attend the meeting include Union ministers Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj and party chief Amit Shah.
The party sources said that the defeat, especially in UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s home turf Gorakhpur, has made the top leadership sit up and take notice of the developments in this key state.
“While losing bypolls is no indicator of the mood of the voters in the state, it is the new alliances and caste equations emerging in the state that could give us sleepless nights in coming elections (2019),” a senior party leader told ThePrint, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Apart from the bypoll defeat, the PM and his cabinet colleagues are also expected to discuss the ongoing impasse in Parliament. Except the finance bill which the Speaker got cleared without putting it to vote, not a single bill could be passed in the past seven days.
ThePrint was the first to report that the BJP leadership was keeping a close watch on the dinner meet of opposition parties hosted by Congress leader Sonia Gandhi Tuesday to get a sense of the opposition’s mood.
The PM is expected to take a crucial decision related to the Parliament session, said a highly placed source.
“Running a session involves a lot of expenditure and if the opposition decides not to come on the same page, then we have to think out of the box,” said the source.
“We are trying hard to convince the parties protesting over various issues but failed to reach any consensus,” the source added.
The top leadership is expected to discuss the upcoming elections in some states and assess the party’s preparedness for the same.
The meeting assumes significance given the PM has asked BJP MPs to gear up for these polls in every parliamentary party meeting.