Bjp: UP former deputy CM Dinesh Sharma is BJP’s nominee for RS byelection | Lucknow Information

LUCKNOW: The BJP flashed the Brahmin card on Sunday by nominating former deputy CM Dinesh Sharma for the Rajya Sabha seat that fell vacant following the demise of Haridwar Dubey in June this yr. The bypoll for the seat, if required, is due on September 15.
Given the power of BJP in UP meeting, Sharma will sail by way of simply and can get a RS time period until 2026. The transfer got here simply over a month after the get together appointed former state BJP chief and Rajya Sabha MP Laxmi Kant Bajpai, a outstanding Brahmin chief from UP, as get together’s nationwide vice-president. Bajpai himself was nominated to the higher home of Parliament in Could final yr.
Sharma (59), a professor of commerce at Lucknow College, was appointed as BJP nationwide vicepresident in August 2014, months after the saffron outfit registered an amazing victory and Narendra Modi bought hoisted because the PM for the primary time. He additionally headed BJP’s membership drive in 2014-15, a marketing campaign that ultimately bought registered within the Guinness guide. Sharma was additionally answerable for Gujarat in 2014 when the BJP received all 26 Lok Sabha seats within the state. Often known as a protégé of BJP stalwart and former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Sharma has been a two-term Lucknow mayor (between 2006-12 and 2012-17). After BJP rode to energy with a shocking majority in 2017, Sharma bought appointed as one of many two deputy CMs together with Keshav Maurya whereas being routed to the state legislative council.
He, nonetheless, bought changed by former UP regulation minister Brajesh Pathak in 2022 when the BJP returned to energy beneath the management of CM Yogi Adityanath. Sharma, in the meantime, bought re-nominated to the legilsative council in 2021. His time period within the council is until January 30, 2027.
Sharma’s nomination to RS seat was keenly perceived as BJP’s contemporary thrust on consolidation of the Brahmin group, which has historically been voting in favour of the saffron outfit. BJP sources stated that Dubey himself was picked up for Rajya Sabha in November 2020 beneath the ‘Brahmin quota’.He received from Agra Cantt seat on a BJP ticket in 1989 for the primary time. He once more received the seat in 1991 and managed to get a ministerial berth within the Kalyan Singh cupboard. He later served as UP BJP spokesperson and likewise as state vice-president. If we embrace Dinesh Sharma, of BJP’s 25 Rajya Sabha members from UP, there are 5 Brahmins. Others are Sudhanshi Trivedi, Laxmi Kant Bajpai, Seema Dwivedi and Ashok Bajpai. The caste has almost 9-10 % share in UP’s voting inhabitants.