In UP, Amit Shah To Hold Brainstorming Session For Coming Assembly Polls

Sources said apart from UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, state election in-charge Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Sunil Bansal and Swatantra Dev Singh will also attend the four-hour session in Varanasi on Friday.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will go to Uttar Pradesh for a two-day visit starting Friday to hold strategy meetings regarding the coming elections in the country's most politically crucial state. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath -- who suffered some setbacks within the party and among allies after the second wave of Covid this summer -- is seeking re-election in the state that's seen as the Gateway to Delhi.

Mr Shah has already backed Yogi Adityanath firmly as the party's face in next year's elections.

"If you want to make Modi Prime Minister again in 2024, make Yogi Adityanath the Chief Minister again in 2022. We will make UP the number one state. Without UP there cannot be a government at the Centre and the credit of the Narendra Modi governments in 2014 and 2019 goes completely to people of Uttar Pradesh," he had said a recent meeting during the party's membership drive.

Mr Shah has also expressed confidence that the BJP will cross the 300-seats mark in the assembly polls and Yogi Adityanath will return to power. The BJP won a landslide 312 seats and secured a 39.67 per cent vote share in the elections for 403-member assembly in 2017.