Aiming to strengthen the party at the village level, the state unit of Bharatiya Janata Party has decided to train party workers on managing booths and sensitise people towards the party.
The decision was taken at a series of meetings between UP in-charge Om Marhur with state office bearers. State BJP chief Keshav Prasad Maurya was also present in the meeting.
“For the next month and a half, the party will conduct a series of training programmes and Yatras. These are planned in such a way that everyday party leaders will interact with workers at the block level. The aim is to strengthen our base at the block level. If we can do that consistently, then half the battle will be won,” Keshav Prasad Maurya told this reporter after the series of meetings.
Maurya said that it is a battle zone now. “We will have to ensure that our ‘yodha’ are at the right place and are well armed with knowledge about Union Government’s achievements. Our fight is against corrupt and criminal parties like the BSP and the SP. So we need to have our workers to have information about Akhilesh government’s anti-people policies,” Maurya said.
The party has decided to appoint a ‘Prahari’ in each constituency who will act as the in-charge. He will be gateway of information and would act as the go-to-person about on extending help to party workers.
BJP state general secretary Vijay Bahadur Pathak said that over 2 crore party workers have taken part in poll management programmes. Party leaders have held held chaupals at over 67,000 villages in the month of April.
He said that the party is ready for the 2017 Assembly polls. Out of 1.40 lakh booths, the party has constituted committees in 1.30 lakh booths and soon other booths will be covered.
Besides, the BJP has divided the state organisation into 1,463 mandals, 9,933 sectors and 92 district units in a bid to decentralise its preparations. The party is hopeful that it would surge ahead as it tightens its grip at the micro-level organisational structures and connect it with the themes of campaign issues.
“ It is a three-cornered tight contest and campaign issues must gel with right kind of communication and the work at the booth levels,” said Pathak.