Manoj BhadraLucknow, Feb. 4 -- All political parties are busy preparing with full force for the assembly elections to be held in Uttar Pradesh next year. However, the emergence of dissenting voices within the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and in the NDA have increased the concerns of the party leadership.

The growing divide between elected representatives and officials, and between the ministers, is now becoming a subject of public debate.

The heated argument between Water Resources Minister Swatantra Dev Singh and local BJP MLA Brijbhushan Rajput on a road in Mahoba on January 30 is considered the latest example of this surfacing internal contradiction.

Although the party leadership termed it a minor incident, in political circles...