Lucknow: Stung by a flurry of resignations from backward caste MLAs, including the three prominent UP ministers, BJP has moved into an overdrive to arrest the opposition’s attempts to set a ‘backward versus upper caste’ narrative that could potentially hurt the saffron outfit’s larger social coalition cobbled successfully in the 2014 Lok Sabha and then again in the 2017 assembly elections.
Even as CM Yogi Adityanath led from the front by attending a ‘bhoj’ (meal) at a Dalit family’s home on the occasion of Makar Sankranti in Gorakhpur on Friday, BJP pressed into action 20,000 backward caste leaders across the state to defuse the crisis. As a matter of fact, ‘sah-bhoj’ — breaking bread with Dalits and downtrodden — was a tradition started by Mahant Avaidyanath. The Goraksh Peeth has been following it religiously since the early 80s.
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