The national BJP president Rajnath Singh on Friday directed the city party president to initiate process for preparing poll strategy for lok Sabha elections 2014.
During BJP’s national executive meet in Goa, the BJP national president asked Chandigarh party president Sanjay Tandon to gear up for the lok Sabha polls ensuring victory of the party.
The BJP has faced three defeats in a row in lok Sabha elections. During 2009 lok Sabha elections, Congress candidate and current MP Pawan Kumar Bansal had retained Chandigarh’s parliamentary seat recording a hat-trick on the seat and defeating archrival Satya Pal Jain of BJP and Harmohan Dhawan, who had fought elections on BSP ticket then.
Aiming to wrest the city parliamentary seat from Congress in lok Sabha elections 2014, the city BJP had recently constituted a new team of office bearers, in-charges and conveners of its various Morchas and Cells among others.
After his re-election as Chandigarh party president in January this year, Tandon had announced his new team of city BJP keeping in view the upcoming polls.
Meanwhile, taking stock of various protests organized by BJP against former Railway Minister and local MP Pawan Kumar Bansal in the city, the national leaders appreciated the efforts of local party leaders at the meeting.
After the arrest of Bansal’s nephew Vijay Singla by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for allegedly accepting bribe to fix plum position in the Railway Board, the Chandigarh BJP had organised a number of protest demonstrations across the city demanding Bansal’s resignation from the Cabinet.
local MP Bansal had resigned from the post of Railway Minister on May 10.
From starting a signatures campaign to actively making use of social networking platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, the local party leaders remained proactive to take their campaign against Bansal to the large number of people.
The city BJP had also launched citywide door-to-door campaign distributing pamphlets to the residents. Through the pamphlet, the party had also made an appeal to the residents to support BJP in their fight against corruption and corrupt ministers.
A delegation of BJP has recently submitted documents regarding misappropriation of funds in the companies owned by family members of local MP. The BJP leaders also submitted the report prepared by the ‘Pawan Kumar Bansal Scam Exposure Committee’ including the details of companies pertaining to the relatives and family members of Pawan Kumar Bansal involved in financial irregularities.