Focus of BJP, Congress is booth management

New Delhi: BJP and Congress have now shifted focus to booth management in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Senior leaders from both the parties are working on last-minute strategies to ensure that voters come out in large numbers on Friday.

Madhya Pradesh BJP president VD Sharma on Thursday connected with the booth committee members of 64,524 polling booths of the state through web-based audio-bridge call and instructed them to start early on voting day. Later, WhatsApp messages were sent to 10,000 workers in each assembly constituency instructing them on how to ensure maximum polling right from the morning.

"Union home minister Amit Shah had tasked us with 15 programmes to be monitored at the booth level. We have completed one round and on Thursday we revised it," Sharma told ET. "Our booth level workers are armed with voters' data along with the list of beneficiaries of central as well as state government schemes. On one phone call, 10,000 workers in every assembly constituency will wake up early in the morning across the state and will start working."


Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath on Thursday made phone calls to all party candidates to take stock of booth-level preparation. "We started working on booth-level teams very early. We have teams in all 65,000 booths. The team is directly monitored by state chief Kamal Nathji," Abhay Dubey, vice chairman of the Madhya Pradesh Congress media committee, told ET.

Dubey said Congress has established a connect with voters through call centres and teams would start work from early morning. Congress workers are going door to door, talking of guarantees while delivering voting slips.