Keeping an eye on the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and expected third wave in the country, BJP national president J P Nadda on Sunday reviewed the progress of party’s work on the ground towards helping out those affected by the virulent second wave of the Coronavirus infection.
In the backdrop of lives lost due to the pandemic across the country and large-scale unemployment following the lockdown, the BJP has re-assessed its approach and asked all its central and state ministers, MPs and MLAs to personally focus on Covid-19-related work in their respective areas and mitigate impact of the pandemic.
Six States are going to poll next year including Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Gujarat.
Nadda will now be meeting ministers every Sunday for the next 6 weeks to bring party work in sync with the government’s development and welfare policies, an excercise that party has been doing in the first inning of the Modi-government.
The government has recently been criticised by the opposition for being caught off-guard during the second wave of the Covid19 in April-May, leading to major casualties.
Nadda’s meet will also focus on preparations for the third wave of COVID and be prepared with all that necessary to deal with the pandemic.
Nadda assessed the work done under the programmes ‘Sewa hi Sanghthan’ and ‘Vaccination Drive’ saying, “Today, a review meeting was held with all the national vice presidents of the BJP on “Sewa Hi Sangathan”, “vaccination drive” and other programmes and all partymen are doing their best under the able guidance of the Prime Minister.”
As part of its ‘Sewa hi Sangathan’ , BJP has plans to train a woman and a youth worker each in two lakh urban neighbourhoods and villages in the country.
The Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry election campaigns had invited public criticism of Governments and political leaders who were seen to be busy with ‘power games’, ignoring the surge in the Covid-19 second wave.
The review meeting by Nadda is an attempt to be alert, this time round, to the public sentiments, and ward off opposition attack in view of the approaching assembly polls.