BJP President Amit Shah in Uttar Pradesh today

BJP president Amit Shah will be visiting Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday at the most challenging time after the party came to the power in the state with an overwhelming majority last year. His primary task, say political observers, would be to restore the cohesion between the state government and the UP unit of the party. "Expect some tough measures from him," they say. Shah, who has engineered BJP win in both 2014 Lok Sabha elections, when BJP and allies won 73 seats, and 2017 state elections, when the party won an overwhelming 312 seats, is visiting Lucknow when two main rivals, SP and BSP, are on way to forge a tie-up in the year before the big battle in 2019.