The State unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will be organising a meeting of all of its 90 poll candidates on December 7 at its divisional office here to review performance in the recently concluded Assembly polls.
Notably, polling in Chhattisgarh was held in two phases — on November 12 for 18 assembly constituencies and remaining 72 assembly constituencies on November 20. The counting is scheduled on December 11 along with other states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Mizoram and Telangana.
In Chhattisgarh, all BJP district presidents, assembly-wise election managers and state office-bearers have been invited for the meeting, a party statement issued here on Tuesday informed.
During the review meeting, the counting agents will also be imparted training. The party will review with candidates’ performance in relation to ‘Mission 65 plus’ target by holding one-to-one meeting on different topics.
State BJP President Dharamlal Kaushik, Chief Minister Raman Singh, BJP National Joint General Secretary(Co-organisation) Saudan Singh, BJP General Secretary and Chhattisgarh In-charge Dr Anil Kumar Jain and State Organisation General Secretary Pawan Sai will be present.
Notably, Congress party has already conducted such a meeting of its candidates and reviewed the performance of assembly-wise candidates. It had also conducted training not only of the counting agents but also the candidates on issue of suspected tampering of EVMs and other expected irregularities during counting.
Congress candidates and their agents are already camping in front of strong rooms in their respective districts. A review was also conducted by AICC President Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi where state-level leaders submitted the feedback on poll performance.