As the BJP prepares for the 2019 polls and its chief Amit Shah hops from one State to another in his 110 ‘Vistrit Avas Yojna’ and lands in Uttarakhand on Tuesday for two-day tour, over four lakh party ‘Vistaraks’ deployed by him at the booth levels are trying hard to cement party’s bond with voters with ‘new challenges’ in mind .
The party has stepped up its activities and sought to continuously strategise on the ensuing assembly polls and maximising returns in lok Sabha polls from ‘new regions’, off setting the losses, if so, in the States where it had peaked in 2014 elections.
Under Deen Dayal Upadhyay birth anniversary Rs Vistarak YojnaRs , the party has accorded tasks to expand BJP’s support base at the lowest organisational level to four lakh ‘Vistaraks’. These workers from different backgrounds would be doing full-time party work for the BJP for 15 days, six-months or even to one year. ‘Vistarak’ template has been adopted by the BJP from the RSS where workers move out of their home districts to other allocated districts where they work to expand organisational base.
The party General Secretaries have increased frequency of their interactions with central ministers to coordinate information dissemination and held consultations of core of different states including Bihar where it aims to continue to expand it electoral base where it is in coalition government with the JD (U). Shah who had last week visited Jharkand and Gujarat would be touring Bihar in November.
According to sources, the party has been asked to prepare for ‘new challenges’ which may emerge in the run up to 2019 elections. The General Secretaries and senior Union Ministers have been asked to ensure that people were kept well informed about the implementations of Government’s pro-poor schemes and counter “Opposition propaganda” on the ground as well as in the social media.
While Shah reaches Dehradun on Tuesday to oversee party’s consolidation at different levels , Prime Minister Narendra Modi will pay a two-day visit to his Varanasi lok Sabha constituency from September 22 and 23.Modi will inaugurate several infrastructure projects, address public meetings and hold an interaction with Muslim women in his home constituency. This would be his first visit after he campaigned in the state during assembly polls.
The Prime Minister would open the second phase of a trade facilitation centre for weavers and handicraft workers in Bada-lalpur near here on September 22. He will then head for the Diesel locomotive Works (DlW) Ground, where he will inaugurate nearly 17 infrastructure projects, including the Ramnagar-Samne Ghat bridge and the Balua Ghat bridge.
Besides, he is expected to distribute certificates to beneficiaries of the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana and lay the foundation stone of nearly seven projects. He will then address a public meeting, followed by an interaction with a gathering of nearly 700 Muslim women at the DlW auditorium.The BJP is currently in power in 13 states and is an ally in the ruling dispensation in six other States where it seeks to expand and ‘ultimately’ form Government on its own.
Since 2014 victory, the BJP has been in a constant election mode with over a dozen assembly polls kept its leaders, including Modi, busy in campaign trails . Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh would go to polls before December and in 2018 elections are due in nine states- Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Rajasthan and Tripura.