BJP forms six teams for feedback

The BJP is engaged in taking feedback from party workers on candidate selection, an exercise aimed at giving a message of transparency and involving the workers in the selection process while gearing up for the highstakes polls.

For the past two days, BJP leaders are in Ranakpur, interacting with workers on candidate selection and campaign plans. Workers have been asked to put the names of candidates in a sealed box.

The party hopes that by giving importance to workers suggestions on candidate selection, it will mitigate the resentment among workers who say they have been ignored for four years.

On Monday, the workers from 35 assembly constituencies of Pali, Jalore, Sirohi, Rajsamand, Chittorgarh, Barmer, Jaisalmer and Jodhpur were called for meetings.

Minister Arun Chaturvedi said six teams of leaders have been formed to engage with the workers. Each team interacts with former and sitting elected representatives and officebearers.

The teams comprise state in charge Avinash Rai Khanna and state general secretary (organisation) Chandrashekhar, minster Yunus Khan and joint general secretary (organization) V Satish, chief minister Vasundhara Raje and minister Arun Chaturvedi, senior leader Satish Poonia and minister Gulab chand Kataria, MLA Ashok Parnami and Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and minister Rajendra Rathore and Rajya Sabha MP Om Mathur.

Chaturvedi said feedback from workers of Kota and Udaipur divisions would be taken on October 16. In the second phase, feedback from workers of Jaipur, Bharatpur and Ajmer assemblies would be taken in Jaipur from October 20 to 22.

Addressing party workers, Raje said Congress acknowledged that the BJP government schemes were good and it would continue with them if it came to power.

She said Congress president Rahul Gandhi had admitted that chief minister Ashok Gehlot’s government was a failure. Gandhi had said the Congress government and ministers had ignored the people.

She said there is no guarantee that the Congress which has not listened to the people for 50 years will listen to them this time. But it is guaranteed that the people will not give Congress another chance.

She said it is the BJP that goes among the people and addresses their grievances. BJP takes opinion of people for the budget and carries out development works based on people’s demands.

She reiterated that the BJP was united and did not divide people into castes or communities unlike the Congress.

JAIPUR:

ANTI-RAJE SLOGANS

At the meeting in Ranakpur on Monday, some workers who were not called also turned up. When they were prevented from going into the hall, they shouted anti-Raje slogans.

MLA Madan Rathore who was the coordinator of the meeting tried to pacify the workers. He also snatched mobile phones of some media persons who were recording the goings on.

Rathore later issued a statement saying he was not aware that those making the recording were media persons.