The town is dressed up to host a mega 3-day introspection conference of the state executive committee of the BJP to draw a strategy to retain all the four Parliamentary seats in Himachal Pradesh in 2019 general elections.
The conference will be attended by BJP stalwarts, including former Chief Ministers and Ministers from all over the State, office bearers, grass root level workers and the active members of the BJP. Over 500 BJP activists have converged to attend the Manthan Shivir in the Mandi Parliamentary constituency of Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur.
Despite bad weather, BJP volunteers are rushing to the temple town of Mandi. The party had won all the four Parliamentary seats in the 2014 lok Sabha elections. Even the wife of the then Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, Pratibha Singh had to lick the dust at the hands of an ordinary RSS worker Ram Swaroop Sharma. BJP workers are rushing to Mandi where all hotels, Guest Houses, Rest Houses and Circuit Houses are packed.
Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur and some of the top leaders landed in the Padal Stadium in the after noon on Monday.
For the next two days meeting of the core groups will be held at the Beas Sadan complex where the performance of various Ministries would be discussed and members had been advised to express their views frankly with the view to improve the performance of the Government
The workers have been directed to express freely without fear or hesitation the lapses of the Government in further improve the image of BJP Government.
Another feature of the mega conference is that a large number of Muslims, including women, have come to attend it.
During an informal talk, the Chief Minister said all sections of people from all regions of the State would be treated equally. However, anti-national elements threatening the unity and integrity of the country would be dealt with an iron hand, he added.