Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan would launch the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) campaign for the local body elections of Madhya Pradesh from Peetambara Shaktipeeth of Datiya on November 16.
This was decided at a meeting of the State BJP local body election committee that was held here on Thursday at the party’s headquarters Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya campus. The meeting was presided by State BJP president and MP Nandkumar Singh Chouhan and attended by the Chief Minister. The Chief Minister, addressing the meeting, said, “The campaign for the local body elections would be launched with a vision for clean cities.”
Chouhan said, “Our aim is to make clean, beautiful and systematic cities in the State and for that cleanliness is must. All the leaders involved in the campaigning should do cleanliness when they go to campaign for any candidate. We would serve the people after getting power in the local bodies and this we need to ensure to the people by our conduct right from the campaigning.”
He said, “During campaigning we should not forget that our party’s membership drive is going on and that should keep running along with the campaigning. The new members joining the party should be kept along in the campaigning and be shouldered with responsibilities during the elections.” He asked the party cadres to take maximum advantage of the social media and use it extensively for party campaigning.
Nandkumar Singh Chouhan and organisational general secretary Arvind Menon informed the meeting about the preparations done so far up to municipality level. The meeting decided to step up the campaigning for the local body elections from November 16. The programmes for public meetings and corner meetings of the leaders to be held in the run for the elections were also finalised.