Buzz in Lucknow: What brings BL Santosh back to Lucknow on June 21

During his visit to Lucknow, the second in a month, BJP's BL Santosh is likely to meet ministers of the Uttar Pradesh government to prepare the strategic groundwork for the assembly election.

BJP general secretary BL Santosh will be in Lucknow on June 21 and 22. This will be his second visit to Lucknow in a month, setting off speculation about something major may happen in Uttar Pradesh’s politics. Uttar Pradesh goes to the polls early next year. The BJP is busy these days to plug every loophole that its election strategy may have in the organisation or the state government. Worried over the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election 2022, the BJP has held several rounds of deliberations that began in May. The buzz in Lucknow is that BL Santosh’s visit to the capital of Uttar Pradesh is part of the same political calculation. During his stay in Lucknow, BL Santosh is likely to meet ministers of the Uttar Pradesh government and office bearers of the BJP over two days to prepare the strategic groundwork for the assembly election.