BJP prepares 'Mission-61' strategy to win 61 seats lost in Uttar Pradesh

According to a report by the Aaj Tak news channel, political activities for the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections have begun, and the Bharatiya Janata Party has initiated efforts to achieve a hat-trick of power. Along with refining political equations, the BJP has prepared a special 'mega plan' to win 61 such assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh where the party has faced continuous defeat in the last three elections.

The BJP has identified 61 such seats in UP where it faced defeat in the 2012, 2017, and 2022 assembly elections. To secure victory on these seats, the BJP has started working on data analysis, caste arithmetic, and micro-booth management. Out of the total 403 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP has begun collecting complete data from the last three elections to register a win on these 61 difficult seats. The party's top leadership is investigating the actual reasons for the defeat to understand why it had to face loss on these seats.

For this, the BJP is obtaining direct feedback ranging from caste equations to booth-level workers, so that separate strategies and targets can be set according to the local conditions of each assembly seat. According to BJP spokesperson Priyank Pandey, the party is working rapidly on the organization's strategy and roadmap for victory so that the lotus can bloom on these seats in 2027.

At the center of the BJP's 'Mission 61' are mostly seats from Purvanchal. Out of these 61 seats in the state, 22 seats are from Purvanchal, while 13 seats are from western Uttar Pradesh. Seats in districts like Azamgarh, Mau, Jaunpur, Ghazipur, and Mirzapur in Purvanchal are prominently included in the party's priority. Similarly, in West UP, there are seats from Saharanpur, Moradabad, Rampur, and Amroha districts.

In the 2022 assembly elections, the Samajwadi Party alliance dominated these 35 prominent seats in East and West UP. At that time, the SP won 27 of these 35 seats, and the SBSP won 3 seats. At that time, both Om Prakash Rajbhar's SBSP and Jayant Chaudhary's RLD were part of the SP alliance.

However, the political picture of the state has now changed completely. Both the SBSP and RLD are now part of the BJP-led NDA. Under these circumstances, the BJP hopes that the joining of both leaders and the combination of Rajbhar and Jat vote banks will provide it with a direct benefit in 2027 due to the changed social and political equations.

In this special strategy of the BJP, along with balancing caste arithmetic, Muslim-majority seats are also prominently included. The party is creating a separate election structure to manage the dispersal of opposition votes and local equations on these assembly seats. The BJP's strategy is to either infiltrate the votes consolidating in favor of the SP on Muslim-majority seats or to cause a split in them.

On the other hand, the Samajwadi Party is also keeping an eye on these preparations of the BJP. SP spokesperson Deepak Ranjan has questioned the BJP's strategy and launched a political counter-attack. It remains to be seen how much the BJP will be able to strengthen its political ground in 2027 on these 61 seats that have remained unconquered for the last three elections.