Ahead of Assembly elections slated for October, the ruling BJP in Haryana is preparing to launch a high-pitched campaign. Union Home Minister Amit Shah held a strategy session on Saturday, where he declared that the party would contest under the leadership of Chief Minister Naib Singh Saini.
The BJP held two marathon meetings in Panchkula to chalk out a 100-day plan with a prefixed goal of winning the third consecutive term. While close to 4,500 BJP workers participated in these meetings, senior leaders including Chief Minister Saini, his Cabinet colleagues, former CM Manohar Lal Khattar, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, and Haryana election co-incharge Biplab Kumar Deb, former Tripura CM, also attended.
Sessions reviewed the party's outreach in all 90 Assembly constituencies of the state to further root its bonding with the people. Amit Shah has asked for outreach at the doorsteps of the communities while giving special focus on those refused coverage under the social welfare schemes by the previous governments.
Sources say that Shah emphasized the fact that outreach programs have been initiated to find out the problems at the grassroots level that were haunting the people. He urged party workers to reach out to the people at constituency levels, not as political activists, but as the family members of their extended families.
Assembly Speaker Gian Chand Gupta pointed out that 50 representatives from each constituency had come for the meeting. The BJP had formed a new government in March this year following its breakup with the Jannayak Janta Party, and it brought forward Naib Singh Saini to head the chief ministerial territory after Manohar Lal Khattar.
The Assembly at present is made of 87 MLAs after recent adjustments, the BJP having 41 seats and getting support from Haryana Lokhit Party lone legislator Gopal Kanda and Independent legislator Nayan Pal Rawat. The Congress has 29 seats, JJP 10, INLD 1, while three Independents support the Congress and one, Balraj Kundu, is against the BJP.
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