new Delhi. BJP’s national vice president Baby Rani Maurya has been included in the Yogi Adityanath government as a cabinet minister. Baby Rani Maurya is being seen by the BJP high command as a cut of BSP supremo Mayawati and hence she has been called back from the Raj Bhavan in Uttarakhand and given a more active and bigger role in the politics of Uttar Pradesh.
The political journey of Baby Rani Maurya, who has been in the Uttar Pradesh State Children’s Commission and the National Commission for Women, has been very interesting. Baby Rani Maurya was elected the mayor of the Taj city of Agra during the Atal-Advani era. In the 2007 assembly elections, he had to face defeat from the Etmadpur assembly constituency. During the first term of the Modi government, in August 2018, he was made the governor of Uttarakhand and sent to the Raj Bhavan in Dehradun. According to the tradition of Indian politics, the office of the governor is usually considered a symbol of retirement from active politics.
But Mayawati’s dwindling power in Uttar Pradesh politics and the importance of Jatav voters once again forced the BJP high command to think about Baby Rani Maurya. On the instructions of the party, he resigned from the post of Governor in September 2021 before the completion of the term of the Governor.
After resigning from the post of governor, the BJP high command made him the national vice-president of the BJP, giving him a big role in active politics. In the assembly elections, he was fielded from Agra Rural seat and after becoming an MLA, he was included in the Yogi Adityanath cabinet as a cabinet minister on Friday.
Actually, BJP has tried to woo women and Dalit voters together by making Baby Rani Maurya a minister. Even among Dalits, the BJP is eyeing Jatav, the fanatical vote bank of the BSP. Both women and Dalit voters can play an important role in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. BJP is feeling that due to Mayawati’s continuous weakening, it has become possible to bring Jatavs in BJP’s side and hence BJP has played a big bet by first bringing Babyrani Maurya into active politics and later increasing her stature. Is.
Let us tell you that, in Indian politics, usually leaders take retirement from active politics after becoming governor, but there have been many such leaders like Motilal Vora, SM Krishna and Sushil Kumar Shinde, who have retired from the post of governor. Played a long innings in active politics.
—AnyTV News
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