BJP begins booth-level meetings

The BJP held several meetings of its booth level workers across the 70 Assembly seats and also organised a brainstorming session of chartered accountants to identify issues close to their hearts.

A former party legislator and BJP national secretary R P Singh urged Lieutenant  Governor Najeeb Jung to declare a public holiday on November 24 to mark the martyrdom day of Sikh’s Guru Tegh Bahadur.

The saffron party’s efforts to strengthen its network ahead of the Assembly polls saw its workers holding eight meetings in each constituency.

The exercise on Sunday follows BJP national president Amit Shah meeting with city party men, including MPs, former legislators and councillors, last week during which he told them to get down to booth level intensive campaigning.

Each meeting involved workers from six to eight polling stations, said party leader Praveen Shankar Kapoor. Delhi BJP chief Satish Uadhyay and  MPs Ramesh Bhidhuri, Parvesh Verma and Maheish Girri also joined the meetings in their areas.

New Delhi MP Meenakshi Lekhi also met workers from her constituency to speed up membership and cleanliness campaigns. In a separate meeting in Delhi BJP office, 100 chartered accountants discussed economic issues.

Party general secretary Rekha Gupta called upon the professionals to spread the message and vision of the Narendra Modi government at the Centre.

Shah, the man behind the party’s success in Lok Sabha polls and the recent Assembly election wins in Haryana and Maharashtra, has been telling Delhi BJP leaders to establishing links with at least 500 workers and submitting “reports” on what all they do, said a source.

Holding 3,000 jan sabhas in the shape of corner meetings ahead of the Assembly polls is also lined up by the city BJP leaders.