The ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh has initiated efforts for selecting strong candidates for the forthcoming lok Sabha elections, named as Mission-29.
The party has started conducting surveys at different levels to find out better candidates. Besides, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is also taking direct feedback from the party workers at district-level, by visiting places under his ‘Madhya Pradesh banao abhiyan’.
Before going for the Assembly elections, the Chief Minister had similarly taken out 'Jan Ashirvad yatras' taking feedback for deciding the candidates. Sources claimed that intelligence report is also being prepared regarding probable candidates, besides pressing in a private survey agency in the field.
The organisation has recently sent senior party leaders in all the 29 constituencies. They have been asked to complete the survey within a fortnight and submit a report in this regard to State BJP president Narendra Singh Tomar. later, from next month, the party would initiate process for candidate selection.
The party would convene meetings of district presidents and office-bearers under its 'Modi for PM' programme scheduled from January 16. During this programme, the party leaders would also have feedback from district level party leaders. However, party sources claimed that in want of good candidates, the party may try its senior party leaders who lost Assembly elections held recently in Madhya Pradesh. These leaders are -- former Ministers Harishankar Khateek, Nagendra Singh Nagaud, Kl Agrawal, Ramkrishna Kusmaria, Anoop Mishra and Ajay Vishnoi. Besides, the party is also considering fielding Gaurishankar Bisen, Vijay Shah, and Sartaj Singh of Shivraj Singh Chouhan Cabinet. Besides, the party is also considering denying tickets to a few sitting members of the lok Sabha.
BJP sources claimed that in view of making efforts to win all the lok Sabha seats, the saffron party has decided to concentrate seats of Congress bigwigs like Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh, Union Ministers Kamal Nath and Jyotiraditya Scindia, former PCC Chief Kantilal Bhuria, PCC president Arun Yadav and Sajjan Singh Verma.