The BJP will go into next year’s assembly elections with chief minister Yogi Adityanath at the helm of affairs, the party's newly appointed vice president, AK Sharma, stated on Monday.
In a letter to state BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh, Sharma, howver, underscored that PM Modi is still as popular in UP as he was in 2014 and that his face is enough to win the next year's Assembly polls.
The letter is seen as an attempt to stamp out speculation about friction within the party on leadership issues.
Sharma is a retired IAS officer close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He was on Monday appointed as the state vice president amid speculation of dissidence in the BJP ranks against the leadership of CM Yogi Adityanath.