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BJP's New UP Team Faces Big Test in 2027 Polls
The BJP is one of the biggest political parties in India.
It had an election in 2024 in a state called Uttar Pradesh.
The party did not do as well as it did before and lost many seats.
Now the party is choosing new leaders to try to win again.
They picked Smriti Irani, a famous leader, to help with Uttar Pradesh.
They also picked leaders from different communities to reach more voters.
The party even lost a special place called Ayodhya, where a big temple was built.
That loss surprised many people.
The party wants to win back voters before the next election in 2027.
They are working hard to make sure they do better next time.
The BJP's organizational revamp signals that its 2024 Uttar Pradesh result, which cost the party 29 seats, cannot be repeated.
Smriti Irani returns as national general secretary for Uttar Pradesh after her 2024 Amethi defeat, alongside strategist Sunil Bansal.
The BJP's UP seat tally fell from 62 in 2019 to 33 in 2024, while the Samajwadi Party won 37 seats.
The new team balances caste outreach with Brahmin face Harish Dwivedi, OBC leader Rekha Verma, and former AMU Vice-Chancellor Tariq Mansoor.
The party lost Faizabad, the constituency including Ayodhya and the Ram Temple, to the Samajwadi Party by over 48,000 votes.
- Who
- BJP President Nitin Nabin and the party's new organizational team, including Smriti Irani, Sunil Bansal, Harish Dwivedi, Rekha Verma and Tariq Mansoor
- What
- A major organizational revamp of the Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the 2027 Uttar Pradesh elections
- Where
- Uttar Pradesh, India
- When
- Announced ahead of upcoming elections in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Uttarakhand, with the 2027 UP polls as the key test
- Why
- To reverse the BJP's 2024 Lok Sabha losses in Uttar Pradesh, where its seat tally fell from 62 to 33
Key facts
- UP Lok Sabha seats
- 80
- BJP seats in UP (2019)
- 62
- BJP seats in UP (2024)
- 33
- Samajwadi Party seats in UP (2024)
- 37
- BJP UP vote share (2019)
- Roughly 50%
- BJP UP vote share (2024)
- Around 41%
- Samajwadi Party UP vote share (2024)
- 34%
- Faizabad defeat margin
- Over 48,000 votes










