The political activities in the state capital suddenly hots-up with all major political parties, who already completed their first round-up of preparations, will again meet this week and chalk out fresh strategy to set their Houses in order before the Election Commission would blow the bigul for Parliament elections scheduled for next year.
Interestingly the two national parties - Bharatiya Janta Party and Congress tried to assess the ground realities when their incharges, Amit Shah and Madhusudan Mistri visited entire State earlier this month initially to strengthen their ground level units which is very weak for the both the Organisations. However, the supremo of two state level parties - Mulayam Singh Yadav of Samajwadi Party and Mayawati of Bahujan Samaj Party, who were ahead of national parties as far as ground level organizations are concerned, had already held week long meetings with their sub-ordinates to get themselves prepared and give best possible results. The two parties also announced candidates on majority of seats. It may be mentioned here that both for Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mayawati, the results of UP will decide their fate whether their names could be forwarded to head a third front which will pop-up if the two national parties failed to get more than 200 seats or some other leaders like Nitish Kumar, Mamata Banerjee, Jayalalita etc will turned out to be winner in the race.
Reports said that to give final touches to strategy for the next Parliament elections, the two Gujarati leaders who were incharge of BJP and Congress in the State would launch their direct interaction with the state party leaders as well as local units chief from Tuesday onwards. The ruling Samajwadi Party will also hold the state executive meeting on coming Wednesday to ensure that two national parties should not go ahead of them in the race besides BSP. SP State executive convened by Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, who also happens to be the party's state president will also deal with the ways and means to highlight the achievements of the government and counter the law and order problems in the State.
State Food, Supply and Jail minister and Party spokesman Rajendra Choudhury said here on Monday evening that the meeting scheduled for wednesday would be important in which party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav would address the state executive. He said that they will deliberate upon the outcome after a week long district-wise meeting of the party leaders in the state capital to get the first hand information about the party lok Sabha candidates and the performance of the government in respective districts.
On the other hand Gujarati leaders fighting all out in UP for both BJP and Congress, crucial meetings of both the parties are also slated from Tuesday to chalk out the strategy for the 80 seats of the State in the coming general elections. BJP general secretary and in-charge of UP Amit Shah would hold a one-day meeting with the party leaders here to assess the poll preparedness of the party and review the names of the candidates for the Parliament polls. Similarly, his rival and Congress general secretary Madhusudan Mistri would camp in lucknow for two days from July 30 to take a first hand information about the party's base in different areas.
BJP spokesperson Vijay Bahadur Pathak claimed here on Monday that the meeting of BJP on Tuesday is important as Amit Shah will review the task of booth committees given to the leaders besides will chalk out future programmes. Several other senior BJP leaders, including the four joint in-charges along with Amit Shah, State president laxmikant Bajpai and others would be present in the meeting.''Shah will also take the first hand report of the district and lok Sabha in-charges besides will review the organisational set up,'' he said while adding that Amit Shah will hold several rounds of meeting during the day with party leaders. UP Congress spokesperson Amarnath Agarwal said here that Mistri would reach here on Tuesday morning and on the first day of his visit, he will meet the leaders of the frontal organisations like NSUI, Youth Congress, Mahila Congress and Seva Dal along with their zonal heads.
On the second day, Mistri would be meeting all the newly appointed district and city presidents to assess the party's programme and strategy for the coming lok Sabha elections. He will also meet the senior party leaders, zonal heads and the legislature party leader. Mistri would be accompanied by State president Nirmal Khatri on both days. On August 1, Mistri will also participate in the Roza- Iftar party to be organised by the UPCC.