From Our Bureau
NEW DELHI: With the Gujarat Assembly elections, and Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections over, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday kicked off a 2-day meeting here involving all the national office-bearers, state in-charges, state presidents and general secretaries on Monday for a “marg-darshan” (guidance) by Prime Minister Modi on the preparations for the Lok Sabha and the Assembly polls.
Modi exhorted the assembled party leaders to bank on the foot soldiers as a ground strategy in his campaign machine to win the elections. Gujarat, his home turf, that completed the two-phase Assembly polls on Monday will be an indicator for the national elections in 2024.
He wants to expand his support base and sustain the momentum for the national elections when he is expected to again lead the party for the third consecutive term. He has already converted the BJP into the world’s largest party with more than 18 crore members.
Speculation is that some organisational changes are also in the offing after the meeting. The agenda of the meeting is booth management, with the review of the programme of the Lok Sabha constituency tours that Union Ministers have been sent on, social media coordination, the G-20 meet as well as social participation in the meeting and other programmatic and organisational meetings, the size of the meeting is significant.
The meeting has been convened by BJP national president Jagat Prakash Nadda, who is set to get an extension of his term for one year as the party president in January next year. He may also make some organisational changes as the party gears up for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
The meeting will also go into the membership data in details in terms of organisational and narrative readiness for the general elections. There will be another meeting of the general secretareis of organisation that will also end on Tuesday.
Modi wants to capitalise on the BJP’s unapologetic emphasis on the Hindu nationalism, creating of new social and caste coalitions and focus on women and welfare programmes, combined with a formidable grassroots cadre and a ruthless managerial focus on the winnability by creating a powerful election machinery right from the 2-day meeting of the party’s top leaders held here to gear up for the polls.
Managing the machinery will be his Home Minister Amit Shah, who has emerged as the party’s master strategist, personally relying on the professional teams to get the ground reports and cross-check details provided by the party leaders.
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