
The Nishads hold the important thing to the Gorakhpur seat, which is the yard of CM Yogi Adityanath. The founder of the NISHAD Party, Sanjay Nishad, and his son and sitting Gorakhpur MP, Pravin Nishad, tell Partha Maitra in an exclusive interview that his alliance with BJP is a calculated technique, which he calls political engineering, to position Nishads in centrestage.