To accomplish ‘Mission UP’, the BJP is likely to work on the twin strategy of hitting out at the Akhilesh Yadav Government for poor law and order situation and spreading the message of good work done by the Narendra Modi Government at the Centre.
In its two-day State Working Committee meeting in Jhansi, senior leaders drilled these two points in the minds of party workers. “Go to your Rs kshetra’ and highlight the failure of Akhilesh Government. But at the same time, spread the achievements of Modi Government,” State BJP president Keshav Prasad Maurya said in his parting shot to the workers.
“We believe that the next Assembly polls would be fought on development. The BJP always focuses its poll campaign around bijli, sadak and paani,” State BJP general secretary Vijay Bahadur Pathak said.
“Now, we have a model of development in the form of Modi Government’s accomplishments. We will tell the people how BJP-ruled States have progressed and how pro-people and pro-farmer policies of the Centre Union have lit up the lives of people,” he said.
To take their campaign to the people’s doorstep, leaders have been asked to raise local crime at muhala meetings. The local leaders have been asked to reach out to victims or to their kin and extend all possible help to them. The heinous crimes, particularly crime against women, should be raised at the district level. If need be, protest meetings should be held, the local leaders were told.
There was a sense of déjà vu among BJP members of the State Working Committee. The hope of BJP’s comeback to power was the order of the day. There were talks about exodus of leaders from other parties and how the BJP has emerged as the first choice for them.