Improve coordination with bureaucrats, party workers: Shah

Eyeing  lok Sabha and Assembly polls scheduled next year in Haryana, BJP chief Amit Shah on Friday directed the State party unit to improve the coordination with bureaucrats and party workers in the State.

The BJP president also asked the State party unit to strengthen its social media cell at booth level and increase the pace of party activities in constituencies where the party had lost in lok Sabha and Assembly polls in the year 2014.

Amit Shah held a meeting of senior party leaders from Haryana to discuss the strategy for the 2019 lok Sabha polls and also reviewed the performance of sitting MPs, Cabinet Ministers and MlAs in the State. Besides Chief Minister Manohar lal Khattar, Haryana affairs incharge Anil Jain, state BJP president Subhash Barala, state organising secretary Suresh Bhatt, Central ministers from the state and  senior Haryana Cabinet ministers among others attended  the meeting in the national capital.

After the meeting, Subhash Barala while talking to the mediapersons said that the party chief has taken feedback from us and reviewed the progress of responsibilities assigned to Ministers and MlAs to hold various events in the state.

“Discussions were held on strengthening the social media cell of the party at booth level. The campaigns launched by the party in the constituencies where the BJP had lost in lok Sabha and Assembly polls in 2014 were also discussed,” he said.

The party chief has also asked to strengthen the coordination with bureaucrats and party workers in the state. Besides, we have been asked to continue holding various activities at booth level to apprise people about the achievements of BJP-led Central and Haryana Governments, he added.

When asked whether discussion was held on probable candidates for lok Sabha polls 2019, he said that no such discussion was held. Another meeting will be held soon to further chalk out strategy for 2019 polls, he said.

In 2014 general elections, the BJP had contested eight seats out of 10 and left Hisar and Sirsa to its alliance partner at that time, Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC) of former CM Bhajan lal’s son Kuldeep Bishnoi. While the HJC lost both seats to the INlD, the BJP won seven seats, losing the Rohtak seat to Deepender Hooda of the Congress. Kuldeep Bishnoi has now merged his party with Congress.

In the State Assembly polls held in October 2014. The BJP had come to power in Haryana for the first time after winning 47 seats in the 90-member Assembly. The Congress was reduced to 15 seats, even losing the status of the main opposition party to the INlD which had won 19 seats. The number of Congress MlAs had increased to 17 after Kuldeep Bishnoi’s HJC’s merger in the party.

Recently also , Amit Shah had taken feedback from BJP organisation leaders during a two-day meeting held in Faridabad on June 15 and 16.

While lok Sabha polls are scheduled in May 2019, the assembly polls in Haryana are likely to be held in October 2019.