The political compulsion of Pankaja Munde, Ashok Chavan and Ajit Pawar in Maharashtra elections is still understandable, but after UP, Keshav Maurya has shown that by avoiding ‘Bintoge to Katoge’ in Maharashtra elections too, CM Yogi’s slogan is his It is my personal slogan and there is no compulsion on anyone to necessarily follow it. Even a month ago, Keshav, while refusing to call this slogan the party’s slogan, had called Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas as the party’s authorized slogan and PM Modi as the party’s authorized leader.
Now even during Maharashtra elections, Keshav has repeated the same thing. Along with Keshav Maurya, senior BJP leaders Rajnath Singh and Shivraj Singh have also distanced themselves from this slogan. Lucknow MP and Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said that there is no need to divide or divide but the country has to remain united. Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh said that if we join together, we will win and move forward. All these senior leaders of the party are seen with PM Modi’s slogan ‘If you stay safe, you will stay safe’. There is a lot of stir in BJP after UP CM Yogi’s slogan ‘Binotoge to Katoge’ got support from Sangh.
This has come to the fore openly in the elections first in Haryana and then in Jharkhand and Maharashtra. If you divide, you will be cut on the slogan, after both the Deputy CMs of UP, Keshav Maurya and Brajesh Pathak, now after Lucknow MP and the senior most leader of the party, Rajnath Singh, have also distanced themselves, this is a clear message that there is still a universally accepted leader in the country and Uttar Pradesh. The slogan of PM Modi and the party is ‘If we remain united, we will remain safe’.
If you shun the slogan, will you accept Yogi as your leader?
The biggest issue of discussion in the politics of Uttar Pradesh at this time is, will both Deputy CMs Keshav Maurya and Brajesh Pathak, who distanced themselves from the slogan ‘If you divide, you will be divided’, consider Yogi Adityanath as their leader? There may not be any visible change in the political situation in UP after CM Yogi’s slogan got support from the Sangh, but there are reports of internal strife.
After the party’s failure in Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha elections, the discourse of organization versus government started being created in BJP. Keshav Maurya had refused to accept the supremacy of CM Yogi, calling the organization bigger than the government. He had also said that he and the CM would get the post of CM and Deputy CM because of their association with the organization. Now, if you divide once again, you will be cut off, Keshav is trying to convey the message that Yogi Adityanath is our ally and not our leader. PM Modi is our leader both at the Center and in Uttar Pradesh.
PM Modi’s slogan is considered the party’s line
Lucknow MP and country’s Defense Minister Rajnath Singh has also distanced himself from this slogan. Instead of dividing, they are talking about uniting. This statement is also being seen as a big message in the politics of UP. Senior political analyst K Vikram Rao also believes that most of the party leaders accept Yogi as a charismatic leader who gathers crowds but they are not ready to accept Yogi ji as their leader. He still considers PM Modi as his leader and his slogan as the party line.
At present, in this entire political incident, neither any statement has come from the party high command nor any attempt has been made to give any message, but this has definitely shocked those people who consider Yogi Adityanath ji as the biggest leader of the party after PM Modi. The leaders were telling.
However, Keshav Prasad Maurya, who had distanced himself from the slogan, also took a U-turn within a few hours. On Sunday, he said that ‘If we remain united, we will remain safe, if we divide, we will be cut’, which is a symbol of the unity and determination of all the workers. There was no difference of opinion in BJP, neither is there nor will be. This slogan is the voice of the hearts of crores of workers like me. In the end, he also did not forget to say that BJP’s slogan is that if we remain united, we will be safe.
