Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is for the first time searching strong candidates in Madhya Pradesh for its political outfit the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). A meeting of the regional office bearers and important leaders of the Sangh in this regard was held here on Wednesday.
The Sangh has taken feedback from its important office bearers for the five lok Sabha constituencies of the Bhopal division besides the opinion of BJP’s Palaks, constituency in-charges, organisational secretaries and other leaders was also taken.
Sources close to the RSS informed that the similar procedure would be adopted in other parliamentary constituencies of the state and the opinion of BJP leaders and claimants for the party ticket would be taken to get aware with the ground reality.
Sources informed that it is for the first time that the Sangh is going to play major role in the general elections and in the process would keep a close eye over every activity of its political subsidiary including selection of candidates and strategies.
Besides, the Sangh volunteers would do door to door campaigning to inspire the voters to exercise their franchise. For this Sangh has readied itself and is out in the field to monitor the things and mend them as per its wishes.
The meeting in Bhopal was attended by the regional office bearers of the Sangh Ramdutt and Arun Jain besides other leaders including Bharatiya Janata Party’s Palak and lok Sabha in-charges of Bhopal, Rajgarh, Vidisha, Hoshangabad and Betul. The Sangh leaders tried to know the ground reality for these seats besides tried to know about the strongest and most suitable candidate from these constituencies.
During the meeting the Sangh leaders introduced their Swayamsevaks with the BJP leaders.
Sources said that though the Sangh would not interfere directly in selection of candidates but would put forth its opinion on the basis of the feedback it has collected making it sure that only those candidates would get ticket who have the backing of Sangh through its feedback besides their names also figure in the Bharatiya Janata Party’s survey report.