BJP aims at youth to prepare party for polls

The BJP, which has been looking at youth votes, is now counting on utilising their services for party activities.

With Assembly polls less than a year away, the state BJP has started the process of chalking out an action plan to involve youth in party-related activities like campaigning, reaching out to the voters and assessing the mood of the electorate among others.

On Sunday, the BJP came out with the concept of ‘One booth, two youth’ of actively linking two youths to each of the party’s booth committees across the state. A decision was taken at the Yuva Samparka Abhiyan organised by the BJP Yuva Morcha in Bengaluru wherein more than 1,000 youth from 297 mandals (party local units) congregated.  

BJP state Yuva Morcha president and MP Prathap Simha said a drive to enrol youth members to booth committee will be launched soon. A massive convention of youth members of booth committees will be organised in Bengaluru in November or December this year for which Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be invited, he said.

In his inaugural address, Union Minister for Statistics and Programme Implementation D V Sadananda Gowda said youth will once again make Karnataka, BJP’s gateway to south India by strengthening the party at all levels in the state. The NDA is in power in 12 states and the time has come to make  Karnataka “Congress free,” he said.