Lucknow, Dec. 14 -- After Brahmins, the Bharatiya Janata Party has had the maximum number of its presidents in Uttar Pradesh from the Kurmi community, the most dominant caste after the Yadavs.

With his name set to be officially announced on Sunday, Pankaj Chaudhary will become the fourth Kurmi leader in the last 45 years to head the party in Uttar Pradesh.

He will be the 15th individual to hold the post of UP BJP president, although this will be the seventeenth election with Karaj Mishra having been elected thrice consecutively, the only leader to secure this position more than once.

The leadership of the BJP's organisational structure in UP was historically dominated by Brahmins from 1980 to 2017. However, in the past decade, the OBC ...