Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has reaffirmed and consolidated his position in the Bharatiya Janata Party. The BJP workers here say he perfectly complements Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheme of things, and fulfilled the PM’s quest for winning the most populous state that would also send many Members of Parliament from UP to make yet another BJP government in New Delhi in 2024. 

Yogi, who is fondly called Baba ji because he is also the head priest of Gorakhpur’s Gorakhnath Math, may not be returning with a brutal number the BJP won in the UP Assembly five years ago. But under his leadership, the party has increased its vote share which itself is a marker that Yogi has vanquished the anti-incumbency factor that was fuelled by the Opposition charge regarding the mismanagement of COVID-19, communal polarisation and farmer issues. The last in the Opposition’s arsenal was an oft-used EVM hacking allegation. Yogi is back gaining where the projections went against the BJP. For example, the western UP did not completely rule out the Yogi regime.