Lucknow, July 16 : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is battle ready for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh.

All the issues that the party is relying on for a return to power have a strong base in Uttar Pradesh — be it the grand Ram temple, the support from beneficiaries (known as ‘labharthi’) the impact of the Uniform Civil Code, the magic of Yogi Adityanath and, of course, the divisions in the opposition.

To begin with, the Ram temple has been the fulcrum of the BJP’s politics since it came into being in 1980, and the party has faced some turbulent times in the temple movement in the past decades.