Shah to hold meeting of BJP’s Hry LS supervisory panel on June 22
CHANDIGARH: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Amit Shah will hold a meeting with members of the Haryana Lok Sabha supervisory committee in New Delhi on June 22 to discuss the party’s prospects in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in the state.
It will be the second such meeting of Shah with Haryana leaders in less than a week’s time, the first being his meeting with 90 ‘vistaraks’ (full-time workers) on June 16 in Faridabad, to take their feedback on the party’s base and standing ahead of the elections.
Media adviser to chief minister, Rajiv Jain, said that Shah, who would hold the meeting at Haryana Niwas, New Delhi, would discuss the party’s strategy for the Lok Sabha polls.
The committee members are Union ministers from Haryana — Rao Inderjit (MP, Gurugram), Krishan Pal Gurjar (MP, Faridabad) and Birender Singh (Rajya Sabha member) — chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar, Haryana party in-charge Anil Jain, national organisation secretary Ram Lal, state party president Subhash Barala and ministers Ram Bilas Sharma, Capt Abhimanyu, Anil Vij and OP Dhankar, and party national secretary and former MP Sudha Yadav, among others.
Out of the 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana, the BJP had won seven in 2014 elections. The seven BJP MPs are Rattan Lal Kataria (Ambala), Raj Kumar Saini (Kurukshetra), Ashwini Kumar Chopra (Karnal), Ramesh Kaushik (Sonepat), Rao Inderjit (Gurugram), Krishan Pal Gurjar (Faridabad) and Dharambir (Bhiwani).
The Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) has two MPs from Haryana — Dushayant Chautala (from Hisar) and Charanjit Singh Rori (Sirsa) — and the Congress has one – Deepender Singh Hooda (Rohtak).
Party sources said Shah would discuss the party’s prospects for all the 10 seats, especially the three which are represented by the INLD and the Congress.
Shah is likely to take up various issues pertaining to party MPs Raj Kumar Saini (Kurukshetra) and Dharambir Singh (Bhiwani), who have announced not to contest the coming parliamentary elections.