With an eye on the 2022 UP assembly polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party state unit plans to focus on the coming panchayat elections to strengthen its base in rural areas.
The panchayat polls will be held in November-December 2020 and it is not certain whether the BJP will contest it on party lines or not. However, the leadership has started gearing up to contest these polls in a big way and has started preparations at the micro level.
“By preparing for the panchayat polls, the party will strengthen its organisation at the ground level in rural areas and it will certainly give us an edge in the 2022 assembly polls, which are just about two years away from now,” said BJP state general secretary and party in-charge of panchayat polls, Vijay Bahadur Pathak, here on Sunday.
A review meeting on the panchayat polls was held in the state capital on Thursday in which the leadership formed committees of ministers and senior leaders at the divisional level to monitor the preparation.
Pathak said that the BJP was committed to taking every elections seriously and the panchayat polls would not be different as the party cadre would engage themselves at the panchayat and booth level.
He said that only after the organisational structure for panchayat elections was constituted, the party would hold meetings at the divisional, district and block levels to chalk out the poll strategy.
Pathak said that the party does not want to give opposition any opportunity to resurrect itself at the grassroots level ahead of the 2022 elections.
“We will go to the panchayat elections with the slogan of Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas and development whereas in the past the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party had always misused the power and money to win the polls,” he said.