Kadi, Aug. 18 -- Newly appointed BJP Uttar Pradesh co-in-charge Jagdish Ishwarbhai Patel on Tuesday said the party's seat tally in the State will "certainly increase", asserting that his focus will be on taking the development work of the BJP governments to the grassroots ahead of the 2027 Assembly elections.

Speaking to ANI about his new organisational responsibility, Patel said he has been associated with Uttar Pradesh for nearly three years and has been managing the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency.

"As for UP, I have been managing the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency for about three years. There is a world of difference between the UP of pre-2014 and the UP of today. Development has reached every street, every neighbourhood, and every...