Lucknow, April 13 -- : Even as the BJP's top leadership remains heavily engaged in the ongoing assembly election campaigns in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu and parallel political activity in Bihar, the sudden flurry of high-level meetings in Lucknow on Sunday signalled an urgent push to fast-track long-pending decisions, including Cabinet expansion and organisational changes, ahead of 2027 assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh.

In a development seen as significant given the timing, BJP national general secretary Vinod Tawde held a series of closed-door meetings with key state leaders at the party headquarters here, setting off intense political activities in the state capital. Chief minister Yogi Adityanath was campaigning in West Bengal.

Tawde,...