LUCKNOW: Is chief minister Yogi Adityanath in for one of the most profound endorsements of being a top BJP leader with a national appeal? The question assumed much pertinence even as Adityanath dashed to Delhi to meet the BJP brass, including PM Narendra Modi, amid whirling speculations of his likely induction into the BJP's parliamentary board, the highest decision-making body of the party.
The development came just over a fortnight after Yogi took reins of UP for the second consecutive time with BJP returning to power in the recently concluded UP polls. On his Delhi trip on Monday, the UP CM was accompanied by his two deputies -- Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak. Cabinet minister and PM Modi trusted ex-IAS officer AK Sharma and UP BJP state general secretary (organisation), Sunil Bansal, too, accompanied him. The leaders also made a courtesy call on President Ram Nath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhawan.
