New DelhiJul 6, 2025 22:15 IST
First published on: Jul 6, 2025 at 22:15 IST
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BJP leaders from Bihar are traveling to Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Haryana among other states to hold interactive sessions with migrants who are registered as voters in Bihar and appeal to them to support the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the Assembly elections.
In Uttar Pradesh, the BJP is running this programme in 25 districts, including Saharanpur, Noida, Chandauli, Kushi Nagar, Gorakhpur, Maharajganj, Kanpur, Lucknow, Varanasi, Ghaziabad among others, where Bihar-origin people are in significant numbers. The BJP leaders, including state and district party office-bearers, former MLAs and MPs, are spending four to five days every month in the assigned districts of UP, holding meetings with Bihari migrants, social media influencers, NGOs and Chhath Puja committee members. The party has appointed coordinators for every district to facilitate smooth dialogue between the visiting leaders and the migrant voters. A co-coordinator, of Bihar origin, is also appointed.
In these meetings, Bihar BJP leaders talk about the development carried out by the NDA government in Bihar. “If UP is your karmabhoomi (place of work), Bihar is your matrubhoomi (motherland),” is the mantra being used by the BJP leaders to appeal to the voters for their support.
“This programme is part of the BJP’s ‘Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat’ campaign under which the party is reaching out to people of Bihar origin in different states. In UP, this programme is being run in 25 districts. It will continue till the Bihar elections,” said Subhash Yaduvansh, UP BJP general secretary and in-charge of the campaign in the state. Yaduvansh on Saturday held a virtual meeting with the Bihar BJP leaders scheduled to travel to UP in the coming days.
According to BJP leaders, an estimated 2 crore people from Bihar have moved to states like UP, Haryana, Delhi and Maharashtra in search of livelihood.
Sources said the BJP had started the meetings with Bihar-origin people days after observing Bihar Diwas in different states in March this year. People from Bihar are invited to these programmes, served state-specific cuisine as BJP leaders make their presentation. The BJP leaders are also collecting contact numbers of the visitors and their respective constituency details so that they can contact them again during the polls.
BJP national president J P Nadda addressed one such meeting in New Delhi where he accused past RJD governments in Bihar of bringing “jungle raj” to the state. He appealed to the gathering to vote for Bihar’s development as they voted for Delhi in the recent Assembly polls.
Organisationally, the BJP has divided Delhi in 14 district units. Delhi BJP’s Purvanchal Morcha president Santosh Ojha told The Indian Express that the leaders from Bihar visited all 14 district units of the national capital. He, however, refused to divulge the details of the agenda of these meetings.
On the controversy over the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, Ojha said none of the Bihar-origin people attending the meetings expressed any problem with EC exercise in the state.
In Haryana, these meetings are being held in Sonipat, Gurugram, Panipat and Faridabad districts where a large number of workers in industries are from Bihar.
Faridabad BJP district president Pankaj Poojan Rampal said, “In these meetings, we are not asking people to vote, we are making them aware of the party’s policies and what the government is doing.”
He said party leaders from Bihar were communicating better with the migrants because of language connect. BJP’s former Pataliputra MP Ram Kripal Yadav has visited Faridabad at least four times since April for the interactive sessions. On June 10, he held a meeting with Faridabad Purvanchal Seva Samiti. Haryana BJP has appointed conveners for these meetings in various districts.
