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The BJP on Saturday invoked the moderate persona of former prime minister late Atal Bihari Vajpayee, reaching out to segments beyond the ambit of hardline Hindutva appeal to counter the soft Hindutva politics of Congress in UP.

Wary of possible shifting of the 'Rajbhar' (an OBC) community votes following an electoral alliance between Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP) of former saffron party ally Om Prakash Rajbhar, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath dubbed the SP leader as the disciple of the 11th-century Muslim warrior Syed Salar Masud Ghazi and said that