BJP MPs from UP to woo Maha voters

Lucknow: Winning Maharashtra without its oldest alliance partner Shiv Sena will be a daunting task for the BJP. Therefore, in a change of strategy, the party is now trying to woo a sizable population from UP and Bihar by raking up anti-Sena and anti-Maharashtra Navanirman Sena (MNS) sentiments among expats.

The task to woo the community rests on MPs and BJP workers from the regions, which send maximum expats to Maharashtra. Ten MPs from east UP will try to make the people of UP and Bihar in the western state recall how the MNS and before that the Sena unleashed atrocities on them.

But Gorakhpur MP Yogi Adityanath, despite representing east UP, has not been told to campaign in Maharashtra.

BJP chief Amit Shah's Man Friday and state organization secretary Sunil Bansal, who was election manager during the Lok Sabha polls in UP, will draw up an elaborate plan for the leaders to campaign in Maharashtra. Similarly, MPs from Bihar are being pressed into election duty in Maharashtra.

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