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Mission 2019: Brahmin as UP unit prez manifests BJP's 'social engineering'

He succeeds Keshav Prasad Maurya

Mahendra Nath Pandey
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Mahendra Nath Pandey. Photo: BJP Uttar Pradesh Twitter handle

Virendra Singh Rawat Lucknow
With 2019 Lok Sabha election less than 20 months away, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi would seek re-election, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is already restructuring its organisation for maximising the electoral benefits. 

The Cabinet reshuffle, apart from effecting a broad-based organisational rejig by the ruling BJP, is a step in the same direction.

Uttar Pradesh, which accounts for 80 seats or 15 per cent of the total 543 Lok Sabha seats, is central to, and understandably, to the party’s poll strategy to repeating the 2014’s stellar poll performance, when BJP and allies had won 282 seats, including 73 in