With development issues remaining the key poll plank, the Chhattisgarh unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has commenced the process of preparing the party’s poll manifesto document for the forthcoming Assembly elections in the State.
A meeting of the poll manifesto committee had already been held last week under the chairmanship of PWD, Tourism and Culture Minister Brijmohan Agrawal who is also the Convenor of the committee, party sources here informed. The committee members in the meeting took a decision to form three ‘sub committees’ which would comprise members who would travel extensively across the State and gather information on the aspirations of the electorate from the voters till the end of this month.
The informarion on various expectations of the electorate would be gathered by the committee members and on its basis, the party would put forward the points in its poll manifesto. The exercise on inviting suggestions from the people would provide the party a fair idea regarding the current views on what they feel about the performance of the ruling Government in the State, sources said.
The members would gather detailed information on the expectations of the people while meeting a cross section of the society including various social organizations operational in the State. The data on people’s expectations would be gathered till October 5 .The party would also ommence the work of launching an exclusive website shortly for inviting suggestions from the people , sources said.
The party had also decided to form five committees in five divisions of the State mainly—Bilaspur, Sarguja, Bastar, Durg and Raipur for seeking information from the people regarding their expectations from the BJP.The divisional committees comprise senior party leaders including some of the ministers in the State Cabinet.
The aforesaid committees would also seek views of the chiefs of panchayats and civic bodies, sources added.