Top leaders of both BJP and SAD will hold a joint meeting at Chandigarh on December 12 to discuss and review the ongoing preparations of Fateh Rally, to be addressed by NDA prime ministerial candidate and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, on December 21 in Jagraon.
The joint meeting, earlier scheduled for December 14, would also be addressed by SAD president and Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal and BJP State president Kamal Sharma. Besides Modi, the rally — expected to be attended by lakhs of people from different parts of the State — would also be addressed by BJP national president Rajnath Singh and Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal.
Punjab BJP, claiming that Modi’s Fateh Rally is going to be the “biggest-ever political gathering in the history of Punjab”, stated that the party’s prime ministerial nominee has pan-India acceptance and attraction.
“To ensure its roaring success both alliance partners are leaving no stone unturned, with top leaders of both BJP and SAD meeting at Chandigarh on December 12 to discuss and review the ongoing preparations,” said Punjab BJP president Kamal Sharma.
He said that all State office bearers of both the parties, district presidents, MlAs, SGPC members will be among those attending December 12 meeting. “I have already met Deputy Chief Minister on Thursday about it,” he said.
“The meeting would finalise the plan for the rally and duties would be assigned to different office bearers, MPs, MlAs and district presidents of both the parties, besides members of Shiromani Gurdwara Parbhandak Committee (SGPC) for the rally,” said SAD spokesperson and secretary Daljeet Singh Cheema.
Sharma said that a three-member panel, comprising former Minister Tikshan Sood, chief parliamentary secretary Som Parkash and MlA Daljeet Singh Cheema, will visit the rally venue on Saturday to take stock of the preparations.
Dismissing any fears on security front, Sharma asserted that he was fully confident that the State Government and its police force will ensure foolproof security system at rally.
He blamed security lapses for serial bomb blasts in Bihar before Modi’s rally there a few weeks ago. “Punjab police has up-to-date training in tackling anti-national elements and will ensure foolproof security arrangement in the rally and I have full faith in it,” he said.