By Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta
The recent virtual meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Adityanath over Ayodhya development plan garnered considerable attention, given that only recently the two were assumed to be at loggerheads over the latter’s leadership and apparent mishandling of the pandemic.
Days ahead of the meeting, concerns over Adityanath’s insistence on being projected as the party’s only chief ministerial face, even as a large section of BJP’s state leadership has raised serious objection over his authoritarian ways, had the party’s top brass working out a truce formula in Lucknow.
The infighting has been contained for the moment as the BJP’s central leadership appears to have willingly or unwillingly accepted Adityanath’s authority in the state but has gone out of its way to indicate that the chief minister will not be given a free hand.
The Wire‘s political affairs editor, Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta, breaks down how all of this will play out for the election pitch that the BJP will be making for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh elections.
This article first appeared on thewire.in