Lucknow: The BJP plans to give organisational experience preference over caste parameters in the much-anticipated rejig of the UP state unit expected later this month.A senior party functionary said that at least 60% of the functionaries in the new state unit, irrespective of their caste, will be essentially those who have long been associated with the party and have a strong background of conducting organisational work.The development draws a contrast with the recent extension in the Yogi Adityanath council of ministers, in which the lion's share went to OBCs and dalits, a development that marked BJP’s deft counter to opposition’s PDA poll narrative, which is said to have dented the saffron outfit in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.Of the six newly inducted ministers, three were from the OBC, while two were dalit. Likewise, both the promoted ministers were from the OBC community.By inducting a majority of OBC and dalit ministers, the BJP govt sought to blunt the perception that backward and marginalised communities were drifting towards the opposition.The organisational reshuffle, however, serves a different purpose, with the party focussing on rebuilding booth-level strength, improving coordination between regional units and preparing a disciplined election machinery for the 2027 state polls.Besides affecting changes in the 45-member state team, the BJP will reshuffle the teams of the six organisational regions – Kashi, Gorakhpur, west UP, Awadh, Braj and Kanpur-Bundelkhand region. The seven frontal wings, too, would undergo changes.UP BJP sources said that the consensus for giving preference to the experienced organisational workers was recently drawn at the meetings chaired by state chief Pankaj Chaudhary and state general secretary (organisation) Dharam Pal Singh.Sources said that the party desperately required organisational workers to step up the poll spadework in UP, the next electoral battleground after West Bengal, Bihar and Assam.Speculations were also rife about the party weighing all options of placing its old and experienced workers in the various vacant positions of the boards and corporations. The BJP has already nominated 2,800 workers as corporators in various municipal corporations.“Caste arithmetic remains deeply embedded in UP politics. However, BJP emphasis may well be moving towards organisational efficiency, ideological reliability and electoral management capacity,” said a UP BJP functionary.He said BJP’s biggest strength in UP since 2014 has not merely been social engineering, but its unmatched electoral machinery. The party’s network of booth committees, panna pramukhs and ideological cadre has historically given it an advantage over rivals.The 2024 Lok Sabha election, however, exposed signs of complacency within BJP’s structure even as the opposition alliance managed to consolidate sections of dalits, non-Yadav OBCs and Muslims more effectively than expected.