Having formed a record majority government in Chhattisgarh, the BJP has now embarked upon its mission of winning all 11 Lok Sabha seats in the state and has started activating its frontal bodies with various tasks.
Currently the BJP holds nine of the 11 seats except Bastar and Korba, which are with the Congress.
The campaign would start with joint felicitation programmes for people and party workers – for their support in winning the assembly polls. The programmes will be held in all five divisions of the state and will start off at Bastar followed by Durg division. Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai and party state in-charge Om Mathur will attend all these programmes along with senior leaders, state president of BJP, Kiran Singh Deo told media persons.
The decision in this regard was taken at a high-level planning meeting held on Friday in the presence of state in-charge Om Mathur and other senior leaders including chief minister Sai, national joint organization general secretary Shiv Prakash, national vice-president B.J. Panda, state co-in-charge Nitin Nabin, deputy chief ministers Arun Sao and Vijay Sharma, Singh Deo and other ministers.
Sources said that during the meeting, the shortcomings in the 2019 LS polls, the places where the BJP was strong and where the party required to work further were discussed. There was also discussion about the possibility of the state government launching some schemes that could find a direct resonance with the voters, ahead of the upcoming polls.
The responsibility distribution for different leaders for the 11 seats and candidate selection was also discussed during the meeting.
During the past 10 days, three other meetings were held for the preparation of LS polls. They included one of the state level office bearers of the party, a joint meeting of frontal bodies and a separate meeting for the Mahila Morcha (women’s front).
Sources said that it has been decided that the mandal-level party workers will be activated again to work among different sections of the society and take feedback from them. Party workers will also hold camps at locality level to provide services like making Aadhar cards, Ayushman Bharat (health) cards, application for PM Housing scheme and others.
BJP is likely to hold various religious programmes to highlight the opening of Lord Ram temple in Ayodhya and take maximum credit. A campaign to take people of the state to Ayodhya was also likely.
The Yuva Morcha (youth front) will hold programmes for new voters at 5,000 places while the Mahila Morcha will take up a ‘Lakhpati Didi’ programme to provide women benefits through self-help groups under the livelihood scheme. The social media network of the party will also be further strengthened with ‘warriors’, sources said.