BHOPAL: The other backward classes (OBCs) constituting 52% of the elegible voters in MP, politics over quota has begun with the BJP going all out with the message that they are the champions of OBCs and pip out the Congress. At a crucial meeting of top BJP leaders, ministers and heads of various units, convened at the party state headquarters on Friday, the ministers were instructed to undertake tour of districts under their charge two days a week and respond boldly to the anti-BJP propaganda allegedly spread by the opposition parties.
The meeting chaired by chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and party’s national joint general secretary Shiv Prakash, also briefed the workers on government steps taken to ensure 27% reservation to the OBCs and monitoring of welfare schemes launched for the SCs and STs.
“The party office-bearers should set their goals and workers should act as a bridge between the organisation and the government. We will make Madhya Pradesh a model state with the perfect coordination between the organisation and the government," said Chouhan He also advised the workers to select the team on the basis of work and keeping in mind various sections, castes and sub-castes. "Not only Congress, but many other parties, social organisations and people are trying to break the country and society, interfering with our ideology and spreading propaganda. We have to plan a strategy to make their attempts futile," said CM.
BJP national joint general secretary, Shiv Prakash is learnt to have instructed the ministers to compulsorily visit and stay in districts of their charge, for at least two days a week. He also asked the leaders to convey a message to the public that 27% reservation is applicable for OBC communities in the state and the government will try its best to pursue the case in the High Court.
He said ministers should dedicate time to the workers to discuss local issues, collect feedback and contain the discontentment, if any. The meeting also holds significance as it is for the first time that the party has convened a joint discussion after appointments in districts, various fronts and cells. A roadmap of the organisational programmes was also discussed. BJP state president, Vishnu Dutt Sharma said, "We discussed a strategy to expand the work of the government and the organisation with coordination of the workers. We have also decided to celebrate the birth centenary of the party's founder member and ideologue late Kushabhau Thakre on August 30.”
BJP is eyeing to win the two assembly seats held by Congress, in Prithvipur and Jobat and to retain the Khandwa Lok Sabha seat apart from Raigaon assembly seat in the upcoming by-elections.
