Yogi's New Normal For UP: Factionalism Isn't The News, Stability Is

Every UP CM over past three decades left either diminished or toppled from within

In December 2025, around 52 MLAs and MLCs of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh, all belonging to the Brahmin community, gathered for a separate meeting in Lucknow. Incidentally, this happened shortly after the appointment of Pankaj Chaudhary as state BJP president.

Earlier in the year, BJP MLAs belonging to the Rajput, Kurmi, and Lodh communities had also hosted similar events.

The "Brahmin MLA dinner meet" happened days after the state unit of the party went through the SIR test. Following a smoothly conducted SIR in Bihar, the BJP was expecting a similar process in Uttar Pradesh as well. The proceedings were anything but.

It took constant reminders and exhortations by leaders as senior as Yogi Adityanath, then BJP president J.P. Nadda, and National General Secretary (Organisation) B.L. Santhosh to get the cadre up...