Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray revamps party in Uttar Pradesh

Nearly seven weeks after losing power in Maharashtra Shiv Sena President and former Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has revamped the party in Uttar Pradesh its second biggest unit outside the home state officials said here on FridayA sparkling new 46member Uttar Pradesh Shiv Sena UPSS team has been formed incorporating a first a Muslim woman Nazia Khan appointed as General Secretary GS along with two other women leaders Sonu Singh Thakur and Savita ShrivastavAccording to UPSS Chief Spokesperson and office head Vishvjeet Singh the 46member apex body comprises the state President Anil Singh Thakur 10 Vice Presidents 6 GS 11 Secretaries 6 State Organisers a 3member panel of spokespersons and 8 state executive committee membersThese appointments have been made with the approval of the Party President Thackeray with immediate effect and now we shall plunge fullfledged into preparations for ensuing Uttar Pradesh civic polls the 2024 Lok Sabha and 2027 UP Assembly elections said SinghAlso read Eknath Shinde camp cannot function without money loyal shiv sainiks with me UddhavThe Sena plans to contest all the upcoming civic elections in Uttar Pradesh putting up a maximum number of candidates with possibility of local alliances as decided by the central leadership said a party leader in MumbaiThe Uttar Pradesh leaders are also likely to be deployed for the ensuing Maharashtra civic elections to woo the north Indian voters particularly in Mumbai Thane Navi Mumbai Pune Aurangabad and certain other regions where they are in significant numbers he addedSingh said the new body will launch a statewide membership drive with a target of over 100000 people who will be enrolled by DecemberThereafter in all the 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh we shall launch an intensive membership drive with at least 100000 enrolments per district before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections said the Chief SpokespersonShiv Sena which has been on the fringes in Uttar Pradesh since 30 years almost equivalent to its rule over the countrys biggest and richest civic body BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation BMC now plans to spread wings in a big way in that stateIt broke the ice with the electorate when a party nominee Pawan Pandey was elected from Akbarpur to the Uttar Pradesh Assembly in 1991 and later he was among those accused in the Babri Masjid demolition caseThe situation today in Uttar Pradesh is very differenta People are now weary of the Ram Temple issue and are demanding the basics of life like jobs education health facilities curbing inflation end to communal and caste politics claimed SinghReferring to the collapse of the SenaNationalist Congress PartyCongresss MVA regime headed by Thackeray on June 29 he said that the Uttar Pradesh masses are disturbed by the Bharatiya Janata Partys BJP blatant misuse of central agencies to topple state governmentsThe MVA experiment of November 2019 dealt a blow to the party even in Uttar Pradesh and Singh claimed that the BJP adopted vindictive tactics against Shiv Sena candidates in the March 2022 Assembly polls in which Chief Minister Adityanath Yogi swept to power for a second consecutive termIn the 75th year of Independence our strategy will be to create HinduMuslim amity allinclusive growth and development of Uttar Pradesh with job creations at all levels improved infrastructure health and education for the entire population said SinghAfter contesting around two dozen seats in 2019 Lok Sabha elections and 100 in 2022 Assembly polls the Sena plans to at least double its candidates for both these elections after approval from the central leadership in MumbaiThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever