The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is putting all its might to strike gold in the crucial state of Uttar Pradesh, which has 80 Lok Sabha constituencies, ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha election.
Even as party sources suggest that BJP president Amit Shah set the target of winning 73+ seats from the politically significant state, Gordhan Zadafia — who has recently been appointed as the party's election in-charge for Uttra Pradesh — said his goal is to ensure that the party wins all 80 states in the state.
"My goal is to win 80 out of 80 seats in UP, nothing less than that," Zadafia said. The party, in fact, is targeting to win as many as 51 per cent votes in every booth.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP had won 71 seats of its own and along with its NDA allies it won 73. Shah was the election in-charge for the state in the run-up to the 2014 elections.
Party sources said, particularly after the drubbing of the BJP in the recent Assembly elections in five states, the party is shifting its focus on Uttar Pradesh for 2019.
BJP vice-president Dushyant Gautam and Narottam Mishra — a former cabinet minister during the BJP government in Madhya Pradesh — has been appointed by Shah as co-incharge.
While Gautam who is from the Dalit sub-caste Jatav — to which BSP supremo Mayawati belongs to — can woo Dalit voters, the services of Mishra, who is from Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh, is likely to be used in Bundelkhand region of the state, party sources said.
According to BJP sources, a series of visits by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah are lined up in the next few months to consolidate the party's organisation in view of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
In addition, the party has lined up a series of direct contact programmes with the voters in UP. Moreover, the party will organise booth workers conference where BJP president Amit Shah will directly interact with the party's booth level workers.
In addition, the party will also organise separate training camps for various cells — Kisan Morcha, Mahila Morcha, OBC Morcha, Minority Morcha, Scheduled Caste Morcha and Scheduled Tribe Morcha.
"Development and good governance will be the agenda on which the party will seek voters' support," said Uttar Pradesh BJP spokesperson Harish Srivastava.
In the last three months, the party has organised as many as 100 programmes to engage and energise its cadre, reach out to the beneficiaries of the schemes of the Narendra Modi-led Central government and Yogi Adityanath-led state government.
Party sources said karyakartas have also been tasked to do a reality check of how the central and state govt's development schemes are reaching out to the beneficiaries.
The BJP has organised a massive Kamal Sandesh Padyatra in UP from Dec 1 to 15. The yatra covers as many as 65,000 villages. In addition, the party has organised functions to felicitate its booth level workers. As many as 1 lakh 40,000 workers have been felicitated so far.
"As a cadre based party we are encouraging our workers who will carry the party's message among the voters," said a party leader.
Party Moves
- BJP has organised Kamal Sandesh Padyatra in UP from Dec 1 to 15.
- It covers as many as 65,000 villages. In addition, BJP organised functions to felicitate booth level workers.
- In last three months, the party has organised 100+ events to engage and energise its cadre.
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