Gujarat BJP to launch mega mass contact programme ahead of Assembly polls

In the wake of the upcoming Assembly elections in Gujarat, the ruling BJP has decided to launch a mega "sampark abhiyan" or mass contact programme next month to reach out to voters and beneficiaries of government schemes in nearly 51,000 booths across the state, the party said on Monday. As decided in the state BJP's state executive committee meeting, held on Monday in Gandhinagar, nearly 12,000 party workers will reach out to voters and welfare schemes' beneficiaries in nearly 51,000 booths on June 11, 12 and 13 and apprise them about state and central governments' achievements and works done by them, said Gujarat BJP General Secretary Pradeepsinh Vaghela.

"During these three days, our workers will contact voters at these booths and share achievements as well as pro-people works of both the state BJP government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government at the Centre," Vaghela told reporters after the meeting.

At present, the Gujarat BJP has nearly 1.13 crore registered primary members, he said.


In the coming days, the state BJP will launch a new campaign to add more workers and renew the membership of existing ones, which is mandatory after every six years, said Vaghela.

In his address during the executive committee meeting, Union Minister and BJP leader Parshottam Rupala shared the pro-people works done by Modi in his 20 years of public life, both as Gujarat CM and then as PM, and asked party leaders to convey them to the people of the state, said Vaghela.

"On the occasion of completion of eight years of PM Modi in office (on May 26), the Gujarat BJP has planned a 15-day campaign regarding public service, governance and welfare of the poor," he said.

Gujarat, where the BJP is in power for more than two decades, goes to polls by the year-end.