From Our Bureau
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s state executives have begun their hurdles on how to win in the upcoming Assembly and Lok Sabha elections.
The meetings held last Friday in Madhya Pradesh and on Sunday in Rajasthan and Bihar were primarily meant to evaluate the preparations for the upcoming month-long celebrations of nine years of the Modi government, but the focus also on the upcoming Assembly polls in the context of the party’s debacle in Karnataka.
On May 19, all top leaders of Madhya Pradesh held a meeting in Bhopal which was also attended by chief minister Shivraj Chouhan. He told the party leaders that they shouldn’t be depressed from the Karnataka defeat as “Congress got JD(S) votes there and that is wny it won, but there is no third party in MP and the fight is direct between Congress and BJP.
Chouhan also promised to launch new schemes to attract the voters before the Assembly elections.
The state executives of Rajasthan and Bihar, the two states crucial for the BJP in the Lok Sabha elections, held meetings in their respective state capitals. In Jaipur, the party decided to organise a protest against the state government in July. It also vowed to highlight the corruption and infighting in Congress in the run-up to the polls.
BJP national general secretary Arun Singh, who is also incharge of Rajasthan and Karnataka, said: “Congress guarantee schemes were one of the reasons for the party’s victory in Karnataka and now onwards the BJP will expose it to the unfulfilled promises.”
“They promised loan waiver and unemployment allowance in Rajasthan, but nothing has happened so far,” he said.
In the meeting in Patna, the state party executive decided to launch a contact drive as a part of the celebrations of nine years of the Modi government and how the Supreme Court defeated the Bihar government’s attempt for a caste census in the state.
