'Samajwadi Party's Return To Power In UP Impossible': BJP's Comeback To Akhilesh Yadav's Infighting Jibe

Amid buzz over infighting in the Yogi Adityanath-led government in Uttar Pradesh, a war of words broke out between Samajwadi party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav and UP Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya. Akhilesh Yadav alleged that the public was suffering in the “fight for the chair” between Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his deputy KP Maurya.

“In the heat of BJP’s fight for power, governance and administration in UP has been put on the back burner. The work of sabotage politics that BJP used to do in other parties, it is now doing the same work inside its own party, that is why BJP is sinking in the quagmire of internal conflicts. There is no one in BJP who thinks about the public. Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya,” Yadav wrote in an X post.

In response, KP Maurya stressed that the BJP has a strong organisation and government both in the state and at the Centre, and added that “the return of Samajwadi Party’s hooliganism in UP is impossible”.

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“Shri Akhilesh Yadav ji, BJP has a strong organization and government both in the country and the state, SP’s PDA is a fraud. The return of SP’s hooliganism in UP is impossible, BJP will repeat 2017 in the 2027 assembly elections,” Maurya wrote in an X post.

This comes after a remark by Deputy CM KP Maurya that triggered speculation that all is not well within the Uttar Pradesh government. The BJP, however, trashed the buzz.

Rumours of discord between CM Adityanath and his Deputy KP Maurya began after the latter skipped multiple cabinet meetings chaired by the chief minister in the last one month. The chief minister met ministers on Wednesday over 10 upcoming by-elections but both the deputy chief ministers — Maurya and Brijesh Pathak — were missing from the meeting.

The central BJP has asked state leaders to stop public sparring and focus on the upcoming 10 bypolls.

Changes are expected both in the BJP organisation and the state cabinet in Uttar Pradesh — the BJP could get a new state chief as Bhupendra Chaudhary has offered to resign after meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President JP Nadda. A cabinet reshuffle is also expected in the state.