Eye on 2024 LS polls, BJP kick-starts booth strengthening campaign

May 25, 2022 20:10

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With an eye on the 2024 parliamentary elections, the BJP kick-started a week-long campaign on Wednesday to strengthen the organisation and boost outreach activities in around 74,000 electoral booths across the country where it is relatively weak.

BJP president J P Nadda on Wednesday addressed a 'booth empowerment campaign' event at the party headquarters in New Delhi, the party said in a tweet.

The meeting was attended by several Union ministers and leaders from across the country.

The campaign will continue till May 31.

To steer the campaign, the BJP has formed a committee chaired by party vice president Baijayant Panda.

Party vice president Dilip Ghosh, general secretary CT Ravi, and the party's Scheduled Caste Morcha head Lal Singh Arya are its members.

The party has identified around 74,000 booths across the country that are to be strengthened under the campaign.

All party MPs have been asked to strengthen 100 weak booths in their respective constituencies and a 30-member team will be formed for the purpose, party sources said.

Similarly, party MLAs have been given the task of strengthening 10 weaker booths in their constituencies, sources said.

The BJP's Rajya Sabha MPs have been given the responsibility of strengthening polling booths in those Lok Sabha constituencies where the party lost, sources said.

The weaker booths have been identified on the basis of the results of the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections and state assembly polls, they said. -- PTI

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