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Adityanath's bugbear? Meet UP BJP vice-president Arvind Kumar Sharma

A 1988 batch Gujarat cadre IAS officer, Sharma, who was serving as secretary in the Union MSME department, had on January 11 taken voluntary retirement and on January 14 joined the BJP

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Sharma — who was recently anointed UP BJP vice-president — is expected to be drafted in the party’s eastern UP region to expedite infra projects, especially in Varanasi

Virendra Singh Rawat Lucknow

4 min read Last Updated : Jun 28 2021 | 6:10 AM IST

January this year was uncharacteristically restive for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh. In the winter month there was hot gossip revolving around the sudden entry of retired bureaucrat Arvind Kumar Sharma, considered close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, into the saffron party’s state citadel.

A 1988 batch Gujarat cadre IAS officer, Sharma, who was serving as secretary in the Union MSME department, had on January 11 taken voluntary retirement and on January 14 joined the BJP in the presence of UP BJP President Swatantra Dev Singh.

The very next day, he was nominated candidate for the

Topics : Yogi Adityanath Uttar Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party Yogi Adityanath government Uttar Pradesh government UP Assembly Elections Narendra Modi

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