LUCKNOW: It is over three months since the new state executive was announced by the BJP, but the tug of war is on over who should head the mahila morcha, with one lobby strongly advocating Archana Mishra’s name and rivals wanting that incumbent Darshana Singh continues as president.
Even the new in charge of the party’s state affairs, Radha Mohan Singh has apparently not been able to resolve the contentious issue despite his directions to complete the nominations in the organisation’s frontal wings.
The issue was widely discussed at a recent private function where most office-bearers from the state, including the state president and senior ministers, had lined up to mark their attendance.
Party sources say that Mishra is relatively new in the organisation as compared to Singh, but she enjoys the blessings of a powerful lobby. Singh is perceived to be the protégé of the previous state president Mahendra Nath Pandey and has also completed her term. But her sympathisers in the party want her to continue and oppose Mishra.
This dilemma is delaying the announcement of the mahila morcha office bearers and even the constitution of the yuva morcha as the caste and social equations are inter-dependent.
Meanwhile, posts in the state’s corporations, boards and other PSUs, which are nominated by the ruling party, have also been lying vacant even as the Yogi government about to enter the fifth year of its term.
The state president had told TOI that the vacant posts would be filled up once the new executive committee is announced, but now the ruling party appears to have dumped the vacant positions, causing resentment among senior workers and leaders who have not been accommodated in the organisations.