No confusion over coordination between government, party: UP BJP chief Bhupendra Chaudhary

LUCKNOW: Newly appointed UP BJP chief Bhupendra Chaudhary said here on Monday that there was no confusion over the coordination between the state government and the party organisation.
Taking charge at the state party headquarters here, Chaudhary fondly recalled that the organisation supported him during his stint as district president and regional president despite stiff resistance from a section of party workers.
"I don't have any special ability...it is your (party workers') strength that helped me climb the organisational ladder and become the state president," Chaudhary said addressing party workers at the state headquarters. He was district president in 1998 and regional president in 2012.
Chaudhary went on to say that the people who are leading the state and the country were like any other ordinary hardworking party worker.
The only difference between you (party workers) and the leaders is that they are lucky. The party bestowed confidence in them and they attained a significant position in the party or the government," he said, even as a host of senior BJP leaders including CM Yogi Adityanath, his two deputies (Keshav Maurya and Brajesh Pathak), former UP BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh looked on. Stressing that there was no confusion over coordination between the state government and the party organisation, he said: "The state government is working on the agenda of the organisation.
Every party worker will have to contribute their bit in taking forward the works of the state government to the people and strengthening the party." "Every worker of the BJP is like a `tapasvi' (ascetic) who endured all the hardships but kept working," he said, stressing that it was this quality of BJP workers that has hoisted the party nationally as well as internationally under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi. Chaudhary, who was the only BJP candidate to get elected to legislative council in 2016, went to become Panchayati Raj minister after BJP stormed to power with a thumping majority in 2017 assembly elections.
After BJP came back to power in 2022, Chaudhary was retained as a minister with the same portfolio and then routed to the council once again. He will now resign as a minister, given BJP's principle of 'one person one post'. Chaudhary reached Lucknow from Delhi by train on Monday afternoon. He was accompanied by a host of senior party functionaries and some of the MPs like Sanjiv Balyan (Muzaffarnagar), Rajbir Singh (Etah) and Satish Gautam (Aligarh). He had been camping in Delhi, meeting party top brass for almost four days since the announcement of his name for the post of UP BJP president last week.