LUCKNOW:  BJP Senior leader Sanghpriya Gautam on Saturday demanded that Union Minister Nitin Gadkari should be made the Deputy Prime Minister while Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh be assigned the charge of the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister.

In a letter, The Senior leader also demanded that BJP chief, Amit Shah, should work hard in the Rajya Sabha where the party lacks a majority and pave way for former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan's charged as the party president.  

Gautam made these demands in a letter, which was released to the media. In his letter, the former Union Minister also said that the incumbent Uttar Pradesh CM, Yogi Adityanath, should be sent to do religious work.

The leader also said that "The Modi Magic is unlikely to work again in the forthcoming general elections and the party workers admit this in private and are suffering in silence,"

Alleging that there was widespread anger against the policies of the Union government, the 88-year-old leader said that the situation was so grim that if elections were to be held right now, the BJP will be routed in all states barring a few.

He also siad that the decision of his party to anyhow form governments in Goa and Manipur was not in the right spirit.