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With Chaudhary's appointment, the party will hope to reach out to Jats who have a significant presence in states neighbouring Delhi
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Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary: New UP BJP chief ticks right boxes for party; Jat leader from western UP
With Chaudhary's appointment, the party will hope to reach out to Jats who have a significant presence in states neighbouring Delhi
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Lucknow | Updated: August 25, 2022 7:55:29 pm
Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary replaces Swatantra Dev Singh, an OBC leader who recently stepped down as party chief. (Photo: Twitter/@Bhupendraupbjp)Ending days of speculation, the BJP on Thursday appointed Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary as the new president of the party’s Uttar Pradesh unit. Chaudhary, is the first person from the dominant Jat community to head the party in the state.
With Chaudhary’s appointment, made with an eye on the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the party would want to send out a message to the socially dominant and influential Jats, an OBC community in the state that spearheaded the year-long farmer protest. Sources said the appointment would also help the party reach out to the community that has a significant say in various states neighbouring Delhi. Chaudhary replaces Swatantra Dev Singh, an OBC leader who recently stepped down as party chief.
Hailing from the western UP district of Moradabad, Chaudhary, 54, is Panchayati Raj minister in Yogi Adityanath Cabinet. He is also a two-term member of the UP Legislative Council. During the recent byelection to the Rampur Lok Sabha, which the BJP wrested from SP, Chaudhary had worked as party in-charge for the constituency.
Born in a family of farmers, Chaudhary joined the VHP in 1989. He joined the BJP in 1991, at the height of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement, and became the party’s Moradabad district president in 1998. In the 1999 Lok Sabha elections, BJP fielded him from Sambhal, which he lost to Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav.
He served as the party’s western UP president until 2017, and joined the Yogi Adityanath Cabinet as Minister of Panchayati Raj with independent charge. In 2019, he was elevated as Cabinet minister. Sources say he retained his portfolio – one of only two ministers to do so – on the back of his performance as minister between 2017 and 2019, when over 1.75 crore toilets were built in rural areas of UP and all the districts were declared Open Defecation Free.
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