Lucknow, May 13 -- After drawing confidence from its recent electoral performance in West Bengal and Assam, the Bharatiya Janata Party has launched an aggressive organisational push in Uttar Pradesh for the 2027 Assembly elections, banking heavily on booth-level micro-management that party strategists believe remains the backbone of electoral success.
The party has decided to appoint nearly 1.76 lakh "booth palaks" across Uttar Pradesh and activate its grassroots machinery almost two years before the Assembly polls.
The move comes days after the expansion of the Yogi Adityanath cabinet and is being seen as part of a broader attempt to tighten both governance and organisation simultaneously ahead of the next electoral battle.
A high-level meeting of presidents of all 98 organisational districts of the BJP was held at the party's state headquarters in Lucknow on Tuesday under the leadership of state BJP president Pankaj Chaudhary and state general secretary (organisation) Dharampal Singh.
According to party sources, district chiefs were instructed to replicate the Bengal election model in Uttar Pradesh with a renewed focus on booth committees, panna pramukhs, shakti kendras and hyper-local political campaigns. The BJP aims to assess all 1,62,459 Assembly booths in the state, including 27,633 shakti kendras spread across 1,918 mandals, within the next month.
The exercise will also cover nearly 14,000 new booths created after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Party leaders directed district units to immediately constitute booth committees and appoint booth presidents and booth caretakers for these newly added polling stations.
Under the proposed structure, booth palaks (co-ordinators) will maintain regular contact with influential voters in their booth areas, coordinate with local committee members and monitor political activities and voter trends at the grassroots level.
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