Shah’s meetings are being seen as the launch of cadre mobilization for not just forthcoming assembly polls, but is also to initiate preparations for parliamentary polls.
BJP national president Amit Shah is scheduled to begin his series of meetings in Rajasthan from Tuesday. The national president will address ten meetings of its cadre base across the state.
Shah had come to Rajasthan in July after a span of a year, but the meetings spread across September and October come barely weeks after his last visit. Focus would be on meeting party functionaries from shakti kendras to state level post holders and elected functionaries from every district.
Locations of the national president’s meetings have carefully been selected to serve to give a message. There would be a meeting in Karauli - where Gurjars had threatened to not permit the CM’s Gaurav Yatra. A meeting is scheduled in Nagaur; the place where Dabra Kand took place and resulted in farmers’ uprising in Rajasthan. It is also the birth place of Panchayat Raj.
The meeting in Dhankya village near Jaipur; birth place of Deen Dayal Upadhyay; is to stress on the importance of the party ideologue. Similarly, closely placed venues of Jodhpur and Pali serve to give dual message. Jodhpur is considered heart of erstwhile Marwar; is the home ground of Gajendra Singh Shekhawat; and of course Ashok Gehlot.
While Pali reiterates the importance of districts close to Gujarat border where labour from these districts seeks employment.
Shah’s meetings are being seen as the launch of cadre mobilization for not just forthcoming assembly polls, but is also to initiate preparations for parliamentary polls.
But Shah also faces the arduous task of mobilizing party cadre into poll mode.
Incidentally Shah had begun the process during his last visit by systematically demolishing the prevalent narrative of alternate parties forming governments in Rajasthan. He had claimed BJP would form a government again. Party insiders feel that this had enthused its cadre and prompted the party at large to emphatically make similar claims. Party insiders also believe that Shah’s visit will not just galvanise the cadre, but also give insight into poll strategy.
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Locations of the national president’s meetings have carefully been selected to serve to give a message. There would be a meeting in Karauli - where Gurjars had threatened to not permit the CM’s Gaurav Yatra. A meeting is scheduled in Nagaur; the place where Dabra Kand took place and resulted in farmers’ uprising in Rajasthan.
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