Archive · 2 Oct 2026
BJP Begins Mathura Strategy Review Ahead Of 2027 UP Polls
The BJP is meeting in Mathura to plan for the 2027 Uttar Pradesh election.
The meeting will happen on October 3 and 4.
Party leaders will check how strong their local teams are at polling booths.
They will also listen to feedback from workers in different parts of the state.
The BJP lost several Uttar Pradesh seats in the 2024 national election compared with 2019.
Its performance also weakened in the Braj region, which includes Mathura.
Mathura is important to the party because of both its election results and its cultural importance.
Leaders will discuss how the government’s work and welfare programs can connect better with voters.
The Bharatiya Janata Party will hold a two-day organisational meeting in Mathura on October 3 and 4.
Senior BJP and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leaders will review booth-level preparedness and electoral strategy.
The meeting follows the BJP’s decline in Uttar Pradesh from 62 Lok Sabha seats in 2019 to 33 in 2024.
In the Braj region, the BJP’s assembly tally fell from 57 seats in 2017 to 53 in 2022, while its Lok Sabha tally dropped from 12 of 13 seats in 2019 to eight in 2024.
The party is examining 115 assembly constituencies where electoral conditions changed significantly between the 2022 assembly and 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
- Who
- The Bharatiya Janata Party, senior party leaders, and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh representatives, including Yogi Adityanath and Nitin Nabin.
- What
- A two-day Chintan Baithak to review organisational preparedness and plan for the 2027 Uttar Pradesh assembly election.
- When
- October 3 and 4, 2026, with related organisational meetings held around the same period.
- Where
- Mathura, Uttar Pradesh; another programme involving Yogi Adityanath and Nitin Nabin has been proposed in Varanasi.
- Why
- To assess booth-level organisation, study electoral setbacks, gather regional feedback, and strengthen the party’s grassroots machinery before the 2027 election.
- Meeting dates
- October 3-4, 2026
- Meeting location
- Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
- BJP’s 2019 Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha tally
- 62 of 80 seats
- BJP’s 2024 Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha tally
- 33 seats
- 2024 opposition tally in Uttar Pradesh
- Samajwadi Party won 37 seats and Congress won six
- Braj assembly performance
- BJP won 57 of 65 seats in 2017 and 53 in 2022
- Braj Lok Sabha performance
- BJP won 12 of 13 seats in 2019 and eight in 2024
- Target constituencies
- 115 assembly constituencies where electoral conditions shifted substantially between 2022 and 2024