BJP CEC Meet: Modi ‘guidance’ to draw line to beat past blues
BJP CEC meeting (Image credit X @BJP4India)
By Manish Anand
New Delhi, August 16: Aiming to take the first mover’s advantage, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday held its central election committee meeting. Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the meeting, which was presided over by the BJP chief Jagat Prakash Nadda.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan also attended the meeting along with the campaign committee chairman of the party for the state and Union minister Narendra Singh Tomar. The meeting assumed significance for the fact that it was called at least three months ahead of the elections, which are likely to take place in November.
The ground report collated by Union Minister for Home Affairs Amit Shah during his two visits to Madhya Pradesh set the backdrop of the CEC meeting of the BJP, said informed sources, with the thrust being on the saffron outfit to draw the right messages for the contrasting electoral outcomes of the 2018 Assembly polls and the Lok Sabha elections in the same states a year later.
“The CEC meeting has been called for the party top brass to draw a line which will set the benchmark for the further deliberations, strategies and poll-related actions,” said a top ranking BJP functionary.
Shah, added the informed sources, has spoken to several party workers in the poll-bound Madhya Pradesh to decipher the reasons for the loss of the BJP in the 2018 state elections and the party winning all but one Lok Sabha seats just a year later. “The BJP workers were angry in the 2018 Assembly elections, and they didn’t sweat out enough in the polls. But a year later, the Brand Modi pulled the show for the party to win all the Lok Sabha seats except the Chhindwara parliamentary constituency. The BJP has to address this contradiction now,” said the top ranking BJP functionary.
The BJP CEC meeting, sources said, did not go in the minute details of the candidates for the seats in the poll bound states but discussed the broad strategic outlines which will “guide” the party in the next few weeks. The BJP will stick to the principle to retire the tired legs and charge up the party workers by bringing in new faces in the electoral politics, underlined the informed sources.
While the BJP is up against anti-incumbency factor in Madhya Pradesh, the saffron outfit is struggling to build a base in Chhattisgarh on account of the leadership vacuum. The BJP is also full of challenges in the poll-bound Rajasthan, while the situation in Telangana is also said not to be rosy for the saffron outfit.
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