Heat may dent MP BJP’s ‘Mission 29’

◗ THE BJP plans to increase its vote share from 48 per cent in the 2019 LS polls to 58 per cent in the ensuing parliamentary elections

The sizzling summer that has already started spitting fire in some parts of Madhya Pradesh has threatened to upset the BJP’s ambitious plan to increase its vote share in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls by ten per cent over the last parliamentary elections in the state.

Party’s top brass in the state has seized the matter and begun working on a strategy to counter the challenge posed by the soaring mercury to mobilise the cadres at the booth level and bring the voters to the polling booths, a senior party functionary told this newspaper on Monday.

The BJP plans to increase its vote share from 48 per cent in the 2019 LS polls to 58 per cent in the ensuing parliamentary elections in the state.

The BJP has set a target to increase at least 370 votes in every booth over the last election.

“We see the peaking summer when the heat wave sweeps across the state as a major stumbling block in our plan to achieve the target of increasing ten per cent vote share in the upcoming LS polls in MP. In fact, we perceive the sizzling summer as a bigger rival than Congress in the polls for us”, the BJP leader, a part of the party’s think tank, told this newspaper.

The Congress’ base vote which is around 34 percent in the state usually remains intact in any condition, making us work harder to increase our vote share, he added.

Almost all regions of Madhya Pradesh experience heat wave conditions during the peak period of summer in May.