Gujarat BJP plans drives to boost district units

GANDHINAGAR: Ahead of the state assembly elections scheduled for later this year, the state leadership of the ruling BJP is now galvanising its grass roots workers. In its first ever meeting after losing a bitterly contested Rajya Sabha seat to Congress heavyweight Ahmed Patel, BJP state unit met for the first time in its state head quarters on Friday.

While the party has already assumed a campaign mode and reaching out to the voters through a slew of programmes, insiders maintain that now the district in-charges are being honed to maximise the reach of the party. Speaking to ET, Bharat Pandya, the spokesperson of BJP in Gujarat said that the meeting that was also attended by the district in charges deliberated upon the ways and means toimprove the performance of the party at the district levels.

“The district in-charges have been told to prepare road maps for various programmes, stay at the top of the happenings in their areas and evaluate the work of the party periodically,” Pandya said adding that focal idea has been to strengthen the party at the grass roots level.

Apart from chief minister Vijay Rupani, deputy chief minister Nitin Patel, state president Jitu Vaghani and other senior leaders, BJP Gujarat in-charge Bhupendra Yadav, all the presidents of the various morchas also attended the meeting.

BJP already in the strategising mode is expected to chalk out the programmes including seminars, cleanliness drives, blood donation camps and other means to reach out to people over next few weeks.