Battleground Lucknow: BJP's backward class MPs, MLAs given charge of 10 villages each

After organising a series of caste-specific gatherings in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, the BJP is gearing up to reach out to the other backward classes (OBCs) through another initiative. It has allotted 10 villages each, where presence of a particular OBC community is sizeable, to a state OBC minister, MP and MLAs from that caste. These leaders will launch a contact programme, 'Samajik Sampark' (social contact), from Tuesday till November 30 in those villages.

"All the leaders will visit these villages and motivate the voters of their caste to vote for the BJP on the basis of work done by the central and UP government," Dayashankar Singh, in-charge of state OBC Morcha, told ET. "We have identified villages in each district and accordingly the leaders are being deployed."

The BJP wants to strengthen its vote base in the villages where voting is largely based on caste. Party leaders said that during the programme the leaders will encourage the voters to vote on the basis of work being done by the government rather than the caste. They will also give their examples as to how the BJP has promoted leadership in their caste groups.


The state ministers and MLAs will get the charge of villages outside their assembly constituencies.

Some of the prominent leaders participating in the programme are state ministers Swami Prasad Maurya, Dara Singh Chauhan, Dharam Singh Saini, Anil Rajbhar and Dharmveer Prajapati.