LUCKNOW: After setting caste equations on a salutary course, BJP is all set to woo the youth by instilling the core ‘Hindutva’ ideology in run-up to crucial UP assembly elections early next year.
Speaking exclusively to TOI, Tejasvi Surya, national president of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), youth arm of BJP, said, “We will go all out to raise the Hindutva cause, which is the essence of India’s civilisation and ensure the party under CM Yogi Adityanath’s leadership returns to power with a thumping majority.”
Bharat can only survive with the strength of Hindutva, said the 30-year-old BJP MP from Bangalore (South), a day ahead of his maiden visit to Ayodhya, a nerve centre of Hindutva politics. Surya is also scheduled to address the inaugural session of BJYM working committee meeting in Lucknow on Friday.
The lawyer-turned-politician will reach Ayodhya along with senior office-bearers of BJYM’s UP unit. Besides ‘darshan’ of Ram Lalla and visiting Hanumangarhi, Surya is scheduled to attend ‘Yuva Samagam’ at Ram Katha park in the temple town, where scores of youth are expected to reach. The programme is also expected to be attended by Ayodhya MP Lallu Singh, BJP MP from Basti Harish Dwivedi and Kaiserganj MP Braj Bhusahan Sharan Singh.
“I will be going to the birthplace of Ram as a devotee from the land of Hanuman,” said Surya, whose profile on the Lok Sabha website categorically defines him as a “core believer in Hindutva, an inclusive philosophy that has been the core of Bharat since ancient times.”
He lauded the Yogi government for taking various steps, including renovation of temples and re-building holy cities, besides introducing anti-conversion and love jihad laws. “All these are important issues for ushering in ‘Ram Rajya’ and protecting the identity of UP as an important state of India,” he said.
Known for his proximity to RSS, Tejasvi was learnt to have been propped as a party candidate in 2019 Lok Sabha elections at the instance of BJP national general secretary (organisation) BL Santhosh, a Sangh affiliate. He was chosen over Tejaswini Ananth Kumar, widow of senior BJP leader Ananth Kumar who passed away in 2018.
Surya’s visit to Ayodhya and Lucknow coincides with BJP rolling out its election machinery with swift political moves like appointing Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan as party in charge of UP elections and deputing Union minister Anurag Thakur to head the IT war-room and mobilise the youth. The party has also firmed up the alliance with Sanjay Nishad-led NISHAD party and inducted cabinet ministers from different castes.
