In Uttar Pradesh, ?Bahujan Samaj Party Chief ?Mayawati made major changes in the party hierarchy? yesterday??. She sacked all the coordinator booth in-charges and assembly coordinators and announc?ed formation of nine new zones across the state, party ?sources said today.?

In every zone, there would be four senior party leaders looking after the interest of the party. ?BSP chief is believed to have got down to micro-management of the party cadres, keeping in mind the 2017 state assembly elections.?

The BSP ?could not win even a single seat in recent Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh though it had contested all the 80 Parliamentary seats. The party did not participate in the recent by-poll for one Lok Sabha seat in Mainpuri and 11 assembly seats. ?

Mayawati is believed to ?have planned the overhaul of the party to ensure that the migration of the Dalit vote bank to the BJP does not take place as also the party's organisational structure is strengthened?.

Under the new hierarchy, Kanpur and Lucknow have been merged into one zone and former minister and legislator Indr?a?jeet Saroj and Ashok Siddhartha have been assigned the task of coordinating party work here.?

Close aide RK Chowdhary will ?now ?take care of Allahabad and Mirzapur. Party sources say the idea of the BSP supremo is to keep the party's rank n' file on their toes and deliver ?an astounding ?victory in the 2017 elections.?