Attempt to give a rural touch at meet
For the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, its literally back to the basics, under the watchful eyes of the RSS of course.
By ET Bureau |
INDORE: For the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, its literally back to the basics, under the watchful eyes of the RSS of course.
The three-day-long meeting of the party’s national executive is being held at Omaxe city, some 20 kms from the main commercial hub . An entire complex spread over 90 acres has been taken over by the party’s Madhya Pradesh unit, and converted into a mini township, replete with all basic amenities.
As many as 24 luxurious, Cox & King-type of tents have been put up for the VVIPS, while hundreds of other, smaller tents have been erected to house the other leaders. The entire drainage and sewage-disposal system, it is learnt, has been re-laid in the area, and new furniture, bathroom equipment, linen have been used to ensure a comfortable stay for the leaders.
But since the entire effort has been to remind the leaders of the need to go back to their roots and rediscover India, an attempt has been made to give a rural touch to the entire place. Thus you can see bullock-carts ferrying people within the campus, leaders plying on bicycles (200 new bicycles have been bought).
There are, of course, no hookahs. Instead of the snazzy snacks generally provided in such events in plates, the delegates were served with roasted wheat and grams, ber, carrots and radishes.
And instead of glasses, earthen pots were used. All these, it was explained, was also done to preserve the area’s ecological balance.
All this, of course, must have cost the party quite a fortune, much more than a normal event of this scale, throwing to the wind all claims of austerity. Services of over a thousand vehicles have been requisitioned to transport the 5,000 delegates to the venue. The organisers, however, are tight-lipped about the expenses incurred in the extravaganza.
Former deputy prime minister Lal Krishan Advani, while defending the move to host the conclave in tents, said this was the fourth such gathering being held in such surroundings.
The Jan Sangh’s second national executive, held in Kanpur way back in 1953, was held in tents.
So were the meetings held subsequently in Patna and the Capital’s Ram Lila maidan. But all these took place during the party’s earlier avatar.
The three-day-long meeting of the party’s national executive is being held at Omaxe city, some 20 kms from the main commercial hub . An entire complex spread over 90 acres has been taken over by the party’s Madhya Pradesh unit, and converted into a mini township, replete with all basic amenities.
As many as 24 luxurious, Cox & King-type of tents have been put up for the VVIPS, while hundreds of other, smaller tents have been erected to house the other leaders. The entire drainage and sewage-disposal system, it is learnt, has been re-laid in the area, and new furniture, bathroom equipment, linen have been used to ensure a comfortable stay for the leaders.
But since the entire effort has been to remind the leaders of the need to go back to their roots and rediscover India, an attempt has been made to give a rural touch to the entire place. Thus you can see bullock-carts ferrying people within the campus, leaders plying on bicycles (200 new bicycles have been bought).
There are, of course, no hookahs. Instead of the snazzy snacks generally provided in such events in plates, the delegates were served with roasted wheat and grams, ber, carrots and radishes.
And instead of glasses, earthen pots were used. All these, it was explained, was also done to preserve the area’s ecological balance.
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All this, of course, must have cost the party quite a fortune, much more than a normal event of this scale, throwing to the wind all claims of austerity. Services of over a thousand vehicles have been requisitioned to transport the 5,000 delegates to the venue. The organisers, however, are tight-lipped about the expenses incurred in the extravaganza.
Former deputy prime minister Lal Krishan Advani, while defending the move to host the conclave in tents, said this was the fourth such gathering being held in such surroundings.
The Jan Sangh’s second national executive, held in Kanpur way back in 1953, was held in tents.
So were the meetings held subsequently in Patna and the Capital’s Ram Lila maidan. But all these took place during the party’s earlier avatar.
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