The Bharatiya Janata Party is back to chaupal culture. Its top leaders in Uttar Pradesh, including Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and state president Mahendra Nath Pandey would listen to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Mann ki Baat with party workers and local people at chaupals on December 30.
BJP leader Devesh Kumar Kori said that Deputy Chief Ministers Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Sharma and party’s organisation secretary Sunil Bansal would hold chaupals and listen to Mann ki Baat in Prayagraj and the state capital.
Kori said that the Chief Minister would listen to the Prime Minister’s programme at his 5, Kalidas Marg official residence while BJP state president Mahendra Nath Pandey would hold chaupal at Itaunja.
Keshav Prasad Maurya will hold a chaupal in Prayagraj while Dinesh Sharma and Sunil Bansal will hold chaupals at different blocks of Lucknow.
Ministers in the Yogi government will also hold chaupals in different parts of the state and listen to Modi’s Mann ki Baat there.
Meanwhile, Bansal has asked party leaders to popularise the good works done by the Central and state governments so that voters could evaluate the work done by both governments for public welfare.
Addressing a media workshop of BJP’s western region in Meerut on Friday, Bansal said the media should be given the true picture. “They should be told not only about the achievements of both governments but also the good work done by local legislators and parliamentarians in their respective constituencies,” Bansal said.
“The collective picture should be presented before the media so that they are able to analyse our performance and write accordingly. This we can do only if we are in regular touch with the media,” the BJP leader said.
Bansal said that party leaders should prepare talking points which should include not only the achievements of the governments but also how both Modi and Yogi had fulfilled promises made by the party to people.
“The media is a bridge between people and political parties and we should keep this bridge strong,” Bansal said.