Guwahati (Assam) [India], November 22 (HBTV): The Assam unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been holding a series of meetings at the state headquarters in Guwahati to prepare its roadmap for next year’s assembly elections.
As part of the preparations, BJP general secretary (organisation) BL Santhosh arrived on Thursday evening at the party’s state headquarters, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Bhawan, for a two-day visit. He took part in multiple meetings where he outlined the organisational action plan and election strategy, and set the target of winning every booth in the state through the Ashirbad Yatra, according to a BJP release.
The party has decided to contest the upcoming elections in alliance with its partners and aims to secure at least 103 seats.
Party spokesperson Jayanta Kumar Goswami said Santhosh held a meeting on Thursday with state spokespersons, the media department, the media relations department, and the media convenors of various morchas. He discussed the current political situation in Assam and offered guidance on creating a favourable public narrative for the party. Responsibilities and tasks were assigned to each functionary.
From 8 pm onwards, he held an extended meeting with the party’s social media and IT departments, along with social media and IT convenors of every morcha, to discuss preparations for disseminating party and government achievements through social media during the election campaign.
On Friday morning, in the presence of state president Dilip Saikia and state general secretary (organisation) Rabindra Raju, Santhosh held a closed-door meeting with the state general secretaries. He reviewed the organisational status of the party in Assam, assessed the strength of booth-level structures, and prepared strategies to ensure victory, particularly focusing on the party’s core target of 103 constituencies, Goswami added.
Later in the day, Santhosh attended an all-day meeting with the newly appointed coordinators and in-charges of each assembly constituency. Saikia, state in-charge Harish Dwivedi, Rabindra Raju and other senior office bearers were also present as constituency-wise preparations and programmes for the upcoming elections were discussed.
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma attended the concluding session of the meeting, where he spoke about strategies for disseminating government initiatives and achievements among the public through party workers. He said the government would soon take stricter measures to curb issues ‘such as polygamy, love jihad, and land jihad’. He added that strict action would also be taken against illegal encroachment on government land, forest land, PGR/VGR land, tribal belts, and Sattra lands.
The Chief Minister further informed party workers that the government aims to reach a just and acceptable decision on granting tribal status to six communities in the upcoming Assembly session after consulting all stakeholders.
A meeting of the state BJP core committee was also held in the presence of Santhosh. It was resolved that the party will contest the upcoming elections in alliance with its partners, with a target of winning 103 seats. The release said the party will contest the polls on the issues of the state’s overall development and its core ideological commitments. (ANI)