Avtar Bhat
JAMMU, Jan 9: Eyeing the coming Lok Sabha elections being held in April -May this year and quick on the heels of party’s Booth Jan Samwad Abhiyaan and Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is soon going to launch a novel nationwide ‘Gaon Chalo Abhiyaan’.
According to party sources, ‘Gaon Chalo Abhiyaan’ will be launched all over the country after January 26 this year after the culmination of Booth Jan Samwad Abhiyaan of the Party and Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra.
Sources said the decision of launching ‘Gaon Chalo Abhiyaan’ was announced by none other than Prime Minister, Narendra Modi himself during the two day national and State/UT office bearers meeting held at New Delhi on December 22 and 23 last year.
Sources said the main objective of launching this programme is to connect the more and more people with Government’s policies and programmes and ensure that no one is left without getting the benefit of Modi Government’s flagship schemes in the country to ensure that party gets over 51 percent votes at the hustings.
Sources said as the 80 percent of country’s population lives in villages, the party does not want to lose any opportunity in roping them with the programmes and policies of the Modi Government. The party wants that more and more people to be linked with the Modi Government schemes to have better results in the coming Lok Sabha elections, they added.
Sources said the BJP has framed two pronged strategy for the coming Lok Sabha elections. One is to ensure 400 plus seats all over the country and other is to ensure that party gets 51 percent plus polled votes to checkmate the opposition which is planning to field a common candidate against BJP candidates.
Sources said that during the programme, the BJP leaders will visit every village all over the country and stay there for 24 hours to have interaction with the people, apprise them of the public welfare schemes and projects launched by Narendra Modi Government during last over nine and a half years.
Sources said as both Booth Jansamwad Abhiyaan and Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra will end by this month, BJP’s third novel programme of having direct contact with common people through ‘Gaon Chalo Abhiyaan’ will also cover those areas and people which were left in the previous two programmes and it will have a direct interaction of the party leaders with common people.
Sources said during the programme, the BJP leaders will seek feedback from people about the implementation of welfare schemes in their villages and also talk to beneficiaries as well as ensure registration of left over people so that they too can get the benefits of Government’s welfare schemes. Besides, they will also highlight various measures taken by Modi Government for development of the country especially backward and far-flung areas which hitherto were neglected in last 70 years by successive Governments both in the State as well as at Centre.
BJP is hopeful that this programme will bring people closer to party and it will get massive support in the elections, sources said. The party cadre is well informed about the good governance of Modi Government so they can educate people about the various polices and welfare programmes very effectively, sources added.
Sources said that ‘Gaon Chalo Abhiyaan’ has the potential of strengthening the trust of the people in BJP and convince them that BJP is the only political party which is genuinely concerned for a common citizen, irrespective of region, gender or class.
It said that the programme will also mobilize the party activists at village level and they will get opportunity to locally have direct interaction with the people and also develop leadership at local level. Like many other programmes, this exercise will provide a platform to the village people to know more about the Government programmes for the welfare, sources added.
To chalk out the programme J&K UT BJP held a meeting here today under the leadership of Party president Ravinder Raina which was attended by former MP, Shamsher Singh Manhas, general Secretary (organization) Ashok Kaul and State vice-president Pawan Khajuria who has been appointed its J&K in charge.
Ravinder Raina, while addressing the meeting, said that this is a nationwide programme of the party, wherein the BJP leaders have to spend 24 hours in a village, interact with the local people and share Government schemes with them.
He said that the party as well as the Union Government are doing great service to the nation and its people through various programmes and policies aimed at uplifting the people, socially and economically. He said that the ‘Gaon Chalo Abhiyaan’ programme will surely bring people closer to the party and get their support during polls.
Shamsher Singh Manhas said that the exercise under ‘Gaon Chalo Abhiyaan’ will prove to be of great boon for the people as well as the party.
Ashok Kaul, while addressing the meeting, said that it is a popular saying that India lives in villages and hence it should be the sincere effort of the party to reach the rural population to act as a bridge on behalf of the party and educate the people about good governance, the pro-farmer, pro-development policies of the Government. Pawan Khajuria, also the in charge of ‘Gaon Chalo Abhiyaan’ also addressed the meeting.
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