BJP neat's, mins on a mission to highlight budget provisions.
- New Delhi: The BJP has made an extensive plan to reach out to the common people and share with them key features of the Union budget as Union ministers and senior party leaders will fan across the country to hold interactions including town hall sessions to highlight the welfare and development proposals pledged in the budget.
- While chief ministers of the BJP ruled states on Thursday held press conferences high lighting the budget provisions related to their respective states and the general welfare schemes, Union ministers and senior party functionaries will hold press conferences and town hall interactions at 50 different locations across the country on February 46
- They have been suggested to speak about the budget provisions in an "easy to under- stand" way explaining how the benefits will matter for the individual beneficiaries.
- The party has, for the first time, formed a nine-member committee under Rajya Sabha MP and senior party leader Sushil Modi to monitor the proper dissemination of information about the budget provisions up to the ground level.
- The sessions by the senior functionaries will be followed on by their state and district col leagues for which the party has formed a four-member commit- tee in each state.
- Seen as the government's blueprint for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls when PM Modi will be seen Kinga third term, this is the last full-fledged budget of the dispensation, which has features touching upon the social segments that have decisively sup- ported the party since Narvmdra Modi became the Prime Minister in 2014.
- "This is the first time that the party has roped in its entire rank and file to spread aware ness about the proposals, which makes it a futuristic budget with huge increase in the capital expenditure and the tax re bate for the working class, "said Sushil Modi, who will be travel- ling to Surat and Jaipur on February 4 and 5 to speak about the budget.
- Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will travel to Mum bai whereas her ministerial col- leagues Piyush Goyal will be in Bengaluru and Ashwini Vaishnaw in Hyderabad.
- Even the party lawmakers have been advised to reach their respective constituencies and states and hold interactive sessions with focus on addressing the issues, which have been rai- sed by the opposition parties,