With Uttar Pradesh’s assembly polls due in early 2027, BJP national president Nitin Nabin is set to hold a series of samanvay baithaks (coordination meetings) in Lucknow on July 3 and 4 with the party’s top state brass, including Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and senior RSS functionaries such as Arun Kumar.
Sources said Nabin will meet the state president, senior leaders, and cadre, as well as representatives of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the BJP’s ideological parent. The visit comes soon after UP’s much-awaited new state team was announced, and Nabin is expected to use the occasion to brief the team on the party’s UP mission.
Those present will include both deputy chief ministers, Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak, state president Pankaj Chaudhary, general secretary (organisation) Dharampal Singh, and CM Yogi Adityanath.
“All MPs, MLAs, councillors and others, including the new team, will be there. This is to set the ball rolling for the upcoming assembly elections in a state as electorally crucial as UP,” a source said.
High-level strategy sessions are also scheduled, with Nabin expected to spend time listening to and seeking feedback from the cadre while giving them direction.
With the Samajwadi Party sharpening its appeal to backward classes, the BJP is set to renew its outreach to OBC sub-castes, a bloc that is collectively decisive for any party serious about winning the state.
Sources said one round of booth verification is already complete, with the second round to be conducted only a month before the elections.
The Lucknow visit is Nabin’s first major organisational meeting in Uttar Pradesh since he took charge as BJP national president in January 2026, becoming the youngest leader to hold the post. UP is the BJP’s most seat-rich state — 403 assembly seats and 80 Lok Sabha seats — making 2027 the most consequential of the state elections on the horizon.
The coordination meeting also comes at a politically charged moment for the BJP in Uttar Pradesh. The Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust is facing a widening donation-theft scandal, with a SIT submitting a preliminary report to the state government on June 23, an FIR registered, and eight people arrested. The row, first pushed into the open by Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and seized on by the Congress, which has demanded a Supreme Court-monitored probe and the trust’s dissolution, has become a live political flashpoint in the state. Any review of the party’s 2027 readiness will unfold against that backdrop.
The coordination format, however, mirrors the RSS–BJP samanvay baithaks held in other states this year; Arun Kumar, the RSS Sah Sarkaryavah and the Sangh’s designated point person for coordination with the BJP, ran a similar two-day feedback exercise with the Madhya Pradesh government and organisation in April 2026.