00:00This is BJP. UP unit gets an OBC chief. Modi Mantri Pankaj Chaudhary has been picked for the role.
00:07BJP's big OBC outreach in Yogi's Uttar Pradesh. OBC Kurmi Chaudhary from East Uttar Pradesh,
00:14seven-time MP. BJP faced Kurmi backlash, remember, in the 2024 polls itself. Big outreach to
00:22traditional OBC voters, now small-time cooperator to Uttar Pradesh. BJP top job. This seems to be
00:28quite a crucial development before setting the precedent for the 2027 polls that's to take place
00:36in the very state. But yes, quite a crucial appointment at this given point for the party,
00:43Pankaj Chaudhary, who is now the state unit for the BJP's president at this given point. It's a big
00:50outreach to the traditional OBC voters as he hails from the Kurmi community, the same Kurmi community,
00:55remember, which ended up contributing to the BJP's losses in the 2024 polls and the Kurmi
01:05backlash that we have seen in Uttar Pradesh. This seems to be quite an important move that the BJP
01:10has, in fact, strategized at this given point right ahead of the 2027 state assembly elections
01:16to make, do, in fact, to make better, make amend situations better in the very state at this point.
01:25It's an important key strategy that we see that's coming to the forefront from the BJP state unit.
01:31It's a very
02:01Bharat Mataki, Bharat Mataki, Bandai, Bandai, Bandai, Bandai, Bandai, Uttar Pradesh.
02:13So, viewers, this is what we are witnessing at this given point.
02:17It's a seven-time MP from Maharaj Ganj in eastern Uttar Pradesh who filed his nominations on December 13th.
02:24He was backed by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath himself, Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Patak and Keshav Prasad Maurya
02:30and other several senior leaders from Uttar Pradesh unit itself, like Smriti Rani herself.
02:36Nominations had opened up amidst speculations of an OBC, Brahmin or the SC candidates,
02:41but the party had come out to unify around Pankaj Chaudhuri's nomination
02:45with his unopposed election announcement that had in fact taken place.
02:50Now, rising from a corporator to a union minister, he previously held the Finance Minister of State role
02:56ahead of the 2022 polls, if we had to just give you a brief of his background.
03:00Now, this move definitely, if one looks at it from a strategy perspective,
03:05the move definitely aims to reclaim the non-Yad of OBC votes,
03:09especially it is the Kurmi community, because he hails from the Kurmi community.
03:13The backlash that they faced in 2024 Lok Sabha elections,
03:16where the BJP's UP seats had fallen from almost 60, around 60 to in the 30s,
03:24some number around 30s, due to the Samajwadi party's strategy at that given point.
03:30So, Eastern Uttar Pradesh is Chaudhuri's stronghold, which is Chaudhuri's stronghold,
03:35and they want to make amends in that very region at this given point.
03:38And this definitely comes in as a big move, as we've been reiterating ahead of the 2027 Assembly polls.
03:46And appointing the OBC chief echoes the 2017 success under Keshav Prasad Maurya as well.
03:52And it also comes in as a counter to the Samajwadi party's OBC outreach so far,
03:58that, in fact, the results of which we had even seen in the recent 2024 Lok Sabha elections,
04:04signalling BJP's electoral arithmetic focus on backward classes.
04:09The
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04:45Manini Abhupen Chaudhry Ji se
04:47This is Bharti Janta Party ka dhva
04:49Mani Pradhesha Adyachichi Ji ko
04:51Saupenge
04:52Jor-dar Tariyon ke saath
04:54Bolibharat mata ki
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