New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak is drawing attention for his new look. He has of late switched from the traditional pyjama to a dhoti and has also started attending RSS shakhas in the morning.

Pathak, who switched from the BSP to the BJP in 2016, seems to be making every effort to project himself as a typical “BJP worker”. According to one of his close aides, someone in the RSS told him that leaders in the UP BJP who had carried on the dhoti tradition, such as former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, senior leaders Kalyan Singh and Rajnath Singh, and even Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, had found notable success. The observation appears to have particularly influenced Pathak to don the attire.

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