NISHAD Party chief meets CM Yogi after his outburst against the alliance

In the backdrop of his outburst against the NDA alliance in the state, Uttar Pradesh Fisheries Minister and National President of the NISHAD Party, Sanjay Nishad, met Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday.

This meeting is considered important in many ways because Sanjay Nishad had recently made a very sharp statement regarding the alliance.

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Sanjay Nishad had challenged the BJP to break the alliance if it feels that the allies have “not benefited” it. He had made the remark in Gorakhpur last week.

Sources said that following his comment, Sanjay Nishad received a call from state BJP president Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary the same night, and he promised that the differences between the two parties would be resolved.

Thereafter, Sanjay Nishad went to meet UP Deputy CM Brajesh Pathak at his residence and said that there are no differences within the alliance.

Sanjay Nishad had said in Gorakhpur, “If they are not getting any benefit from the alliance with us, they should break it. I want to tell this to the BJP. Why are they using small leaders to attack us in abusive language?”

However, NISHAD Party leaders said their party chief’s remarks were due to the growing rift between the BJP’s smaller allies—whether Nishads, Rajbhar, or Patels in central and eastern Uttar Pradesh, or Jats in western Uttar Pradesh.

The BJP is consolidating its hold among Other Backward Classes (OBCs), its main voter base, in the long term. The NISHAD Party’s apprehensions were further fuelled by critical remarks from BJP Nishad leaders such as Jai Prakash Nishad and Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti.