With the 2027 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections on the horizon, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has invoked one of Hindu mythology's most iconic images of immovability — and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath made sure every corner of the state heard it on Friday, 30 October 2026.

Sharing the Home Minister's words on X, CM Yogi quoted Shah as declaring: 'यूपी में भाजपा सरकार अंगद का पैर है, इसको कोई नहीं हटा सकता।' — 'The BJP government in UP is like the foot of Angad; no one can remove it.' Shah went further, asserting that the Bharatiya Janata Party is set to form government in Uttar Pradesh once again with a 'thunderous majority' (प्रचण्ड बहुमत).

The myth behind the message

The reference to Angad — the monkey warrior from the Ramayana who plants his foot so firmly that the demon king Ravana's entire court cannot move it — is a deliberate cultural shorthand for unshakeable dominance. It is not the first time BJP leaders have drawn on this imagery in Uttar Pradesh, a state where the party's base has a deep connection to the Ramayana belt. The metaphor collapses a complex electoral argument into a single, viscerally familiar picture: the government is planted, immovable, and will not be dislodged.

Back-to-back majorities: the record BJP is defending

The confidence behind the statement rests on a tangible track record. BJP swept into power in Uttar Pradesh in 2017, installing Yogi Adityanath as Chief Minister — ending a 15-year absence from the state's top office. In 2022, defying historical anti-incumbency patterns that have plagued UP governments for decades, the party secured a second consecutive term with a comfortable majority, making Yogi Adityanath only the second Chief Minister in the state's history to return for back-to-back full terms.

That consecutive-win record is now the foundation of the BJP's pre-poll narrative as the 2027 polls approach — and Shah's statement is an early, high-voltage signal that the party intends to contest the election from a position of strength rather than defence.

Shah's strategic fingerprints on UP elections

Amit Shah has been a central architect of BJP's Uttar Pradesh strategy across multiple election cycles. As the party's former national president and now Union Home and Cooperation Minister, Shah has routinely been the figure who sets the campaign's temperature — choosing when to escalate rhetoric, which constituencies to prioritise, and how to frame the governing party's identity against the opposition. His invocation of 'thunderous majority' language this early in the cycle signals that the party is not waiting for the formal campaign window to begin its ground messaging.

CM Yogi amplifying Shah's words directly on his own platform is itself a message: the state and central leaderships are aligned, the narrative is coordinated, and the push for a historic third consecutive term begins now.