Oppn Alliance nowhere: Chugh
Avtar Bhat
JAMMU, Jan 7: BJP national president, J P Nadda while discussing the poll strategy for upcoming Lok Sabha elections with the Core Group members and senior functionaries of the party virtually today urged them to fully concentrate on securing 51 percent plus votes in the L S poll scheduled to be held in April -May this year.
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Nadda’s scheduled visit to Jammu today was cancelled due to bad weather, leaving hundreds of enthusiastic party workers disappointed. However, he later addressed the Core Group and senior leaders meeting virtually and urged them to frame a strategy to get more than 51 percent polled votes to ensure landslide victory of the party in upcoming LS elections and to defeat the designs of INDIA bloc of putting a united candidate against BJP.
Nadda, who sought complete feedback from Core Group members of the party on the poll preparedness and implementation of party programmes and Modi Government’s public welfare schemes and projects, asked them to ensure that public contact is made with common masses in the UT on grassroots level who should be apprised of all the Modi Government schemes launched for their welfare and upliftment of their economic condition.
Nadda took reporting on the party’s flagship programme of Booth Jansamwad Abhiyan and asked the party cadre that they should fully concentrate on strengthening of polling booths which is key to party’s success at hustings. “You have to seek feedback from the beneficiaries of various Modi Government schemes like Ayushman Bharat, Gareeb Jan Kalyan, Beti Bachao Beti Padao, Ayushman Bharat, Ujwala, PM Vishwakarma Yojna, welfare schemes for farmers, Gujars, SCs, OBCs, women and downtrodden sections of the society,”he added.
He said the party has to ensure grand scale celebration of Shri Ram temple inauguration which will be held on Ayodhya on January 22 in their respective areas and the day should be celebrated like Diwali all over. He also urged them to concentrate on Kashmir through Booth Jansamwad Abhiyan and ensure that the vote percentage in the Valley also rises considerably.
Nadda also urged the party men to have one to one contact with beneficiaries of various Modi Government schemes and make it public through media as well as social media.
“The BJP national president said his party Government has many achievements to its credit and it is the duty of party cadre to apprise the people of these achievements.,” “Prime Minister, Narendra Modi’s mission is to make India Vishaw Guru and party is solidly working to realise his goal, he said, adding “On the basis of performance of Modi Government who while assuming office on first day in 2014 declared that his Government is dedicated to the service of poor you can get tremendous support from masses,” he added.
Nadda also reviewed the progress of Viksit Bharat Sankalap Yatra and said this is another flagship and a novel programme to take Government schemes to the door steps of the people. He urged the party men to associate fully with this scheme and ensure that more and more people in the length and breadth of the UT are linked to it.
Besides taking feedback from the beneficiaries of the Modi schemes through this yatra the people who could not get benefit of the various schemes of the Government can be enrolled so that they can also become beneficiaries of welfare measures, he said.
The BJP national president also stressed on enrolment of first time voters and highlighting the welfare measures, launched by the Government for the youth and women.
Nadda urged the leaders representing various communities like Gujjars and Bakerwals, minorities, Kashmiri Pandits, SCs and OBCs to ensure that these communities are not left behind in taking the advantage of Government schemes.
BJP UT president, Ravinder Raina, while informing the national president about the implementation of party’s programmes said that 2500 programmes were held in J&K under Booth Jansamwad Abhiyan out of targeted 3000 programmes and the rest will be completed within some time. He said 2.5 lakh people were involved in these programmes.
Nadda was scheduled to reach Jammu on a day-long tour to chair an extended Core Group meeting of the BJP to discuss and finalize the party’s strategy for the next Lok Sabha elections after paying obeisance at the historic Raghunath temple here.
“Poor visibility at the airport forced cancellation of the BJP president’s Jammu visit.
Raina also visited the Raghunath temple to inform the waiting workers about the cancellation of Nadda’s visit.
“I salute the party workers who have turned up in large numbers both at the airport and at the historic Raghunath temple to accord a warm welcome to the party president despite inclement weather,” he said.
The upbeat BJP workers waited for hours together since early morning but later left disappointed after being informed about the cancellation of the visit.
During the rally, Raina was accompanied by party vice president Yudhvir Sethi, former Minister, Priya Sethi, district president Pramodh Kaphai and a large number of party men.
The meeting was attended by party national general secretary, Tarun Chugh and co incharge J&K, Ashish Sood and national secretary Dr Narinder Singh.
The BJP Core Group and senior leaders present in the meeting besides Raina included Union Minister, Dr Jitendra Singh, MP Jugal Kishore Sharma, party general secretary (Org) Ashok Koul, Dr Nirmal Singh, Kavinder Gupta, Sunil Sharma, Vibodh Gupta, Dr Devender Kumar Manyal, Sunil Sethi, Shakti Parihar, Devinder Singh Rana, Ajay Bharti, Gulam Ali Khatana (MP), Shamsher Singh Manhas, Sham Lal Sharma, R S Pathania, S S Slathia and Balwant Singh Mankotia.
Earlier talking to reporters at the sidelines of party meet BJP national general secretary, Tarun Chugh said the INDIA bloc is no threat to his party in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections as people do not want a “weak Prime Minister”.
“INDIA alliance is nowhere. It is a group’ where everyone wants to be the Prime Minister. They are a group of family dynasts and corrupt, desperate and disappointed people. The people neither trust them nor want to give them a chance,” Chugh, who is also BJP’s incharge of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh UTs, told reporters before the extended core-group meeting of the party.
“West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee is not ready to give any seat to the Congress and she along with Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge, Bihar Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar, Akhilesh Yadav of SP, Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister, M K Stalin… all want to be the Prime Minister.
“It (INDIA bloc) is already in disarray and is being abandoned by its members. People do not want a weak Prime Minister, they want a strong PM and a decisive Government, which only Modi can provide,” Chugh said.
Asked about the opposition parties’ allegations of misuse of Central agencies, he said corrupt politicians who have swindled the public money have to face the law.
“The institutions of our country work independently and our Government has zero tolerance against corruption. You need to have faith in law, judiciary and institutions,” he said, adding the people involved in corruption are behind the recent attack on the Enforcement Directorate team in West Bengal.
On the consecration of the Ram Temple on January 22, he said the doors of temple are open for everyone invited for the historic event which is like ‘Diwali’ for devotees of Lord Ram across the globe.
“It is not a day to spread distaste. Under Prime Minister, Modi, the restoration of the Ram Temple is taking place after 450 years, giving a blow to a narrative propagated by the Gandhi family over the past seven decades. They do not want construction of the temple and left no stone unturned to stall its progress,” he said.
Referring to the abrogation of Article 370, he said Jammu and Kashmir witnessed fast-paced development and restoration of peace after August 2019 as the BJP has zero tolerance towards terrorism.
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