NEW DELHI: With general elections less than a year away, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has started brainstorming on ways to strengthen its presence in difficult Lok Sabha constituencies in 2024.
The party has started collecting daily progress reports on booth-level from 160 seats which are supposed to be very challenging. These are mainly in Bihar, Maharashtra, and Telangana.
Senior party leaders such as Vinod Tawde, BL Santosh and Sunil Bansal have been asked to review these reports. Besides, the party is working to expand its organisational machinery and boost its voter outreach in these 160 seats.
It has also drafted many Union ministers into the exercise, with the party brass regularly holding review meetings.
The expansion of organisational machinery is a big strategy of the Modi Government to increase its outreach. All Union ministers, leaders and key persons of the BJP are holding review meetings and have been assigned respective election roles, according to party sources.
The BJP is looking to continue its consecutive winning streak in 2024.
For that to happen, all the party stalwarts including senior Union ministers such as Piyush Goyal, Dharmendra Pradhan, Narendra Tomar, Giriraj Singh, Mansukh Mandaviya, Jitendra Singh and Mahendra Nath Pandey etc, have been tasked with big missions.
BJP insiders say that the Government may revamp and use its 2019 winning mantra. But this time, the strategy will be more advanced.
In some states like Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, the party is trying to make its tribal reach stronger while in Maharashtra it is focusing on the real Shiv Sena faction issue. Meanwhile in Kerala, BJP is trying to build a new leadership organisation. In West Bengal, it is eyeing the ‘bhadralok’ segment in urban centres.
The BJP had drawn a similar list of difficult seats in the run-up to the 2019 polls.
