Enthusiasm seems to be quite high among the activists of the BJP's Haldwani unit with Gujarat Chief Minister Narender Modi becoming BJP's central poll campaign panel chief for the general elections 2014.
In a bid to show solidarity with the party high command's decision to hand over the reins of the central election campaign panel for 2014 to Modi, the party activists led by Haldwani president of the BJP, Deepak Mehra, MlA from Kaladhungi and senior BJP leader Banshidhar Bhagat, former Union Cabinet Minister and senior BJP leader Bachi Singh Rawat, gathered at party office here on Monday and burst crackers in support of making Modi poll panel chief for 2014.
Calling upon the party workers to be united to strengthen party's hands in the general elections -2014, Banshidhar Bhagat, MlA from Kaladhungi, said that there is huge enthusiasm not only among the party workers, but also among people across the country after giving Modi this important responsibilities by the party high command.
"The party leadership has made Modi as head of the election campaign panel for 2014 keeping in view the sentiments of the activists and people at large. Therefore, we welcome this decision," he added. The former Union Cabinet Minister and senior BJP leader Bachi Singh Rawat also maintained that there is huge enthusiasm among the party works after handing over the reins of the central election campaign panel for 2014.
"The fact is that as there is a kind of wave in favour of BJP, so we hope that BJP would win all the five lok Sabha seats in Uttarakhand this time and show better performance in other parts of the country also," he added.
BJP's Haldwani unit chief Deepak Mehra, also called upon the party workers to be prepared for the lok Sabha elections in 2014, saying the morale of party activists is quite high after Modi's elevation as the party's poll campaign chief. "Therefore, we have to be prepared for strengthening the party now," he added.