PM, Shah rallies coming months.
Two-pronged Strategy Ahead Of 2024 Polls
- Bhubaneswar: As the BJP gears up for the simultaneous Lok Sabha and assembly elections in 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and home minister Amit Shah are likely to hold rallies in the state within the next few months.
- "The home minister will Home minister Amit Shah during a rally in Bhubaneswar Dharmendra said the BJP will have a two-pronged strategy to win the 4.5 crore people's trust. come first and the PM may co- me at a later date," Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan said here on Tuesday, while responding to media queries after attending the golden jubilee celebrations of Utkal University's physics department.
- Stating that 2023 will be a crucial year for the party in Odisha amid talks of early assembly polls in the state, Dharmendra said the will have a two-pronged strategy to win the 4.5 crore people's trust.
- Firstly, the party will highlight people's "rising resentment" against the incumbent BJD government in the state more consistently. Secondly, the party will strengthen its organizations in all the 37,000 booths. Being a party, whose support base is growing, the BJP will give vo-ice to the aspirations of poor, women, tribals and youths in the elections, he said.
- BJP sources said Shah may address two rallies within this month as part of BJP's Lok Sabha Prava's Yojana,' a poll strategy for 144 LS seats in the country where the party finished second in 2019. While party president JP Nadda recently addressed two meetings in Puri and Kand Hamal and had comedown heavily on the "soi hui" Naveen Sarkar (government in slumber), the BJP is planning rallies in nine other LS seats within the next some months, The BJP had won eight of 21LS seats in Odisha, was finished second in 11 and had come third in two (Kora- put and Naba Rangpur). In the first phase, the party has been majorly focusing on the 11 seats where it had finished second.
- Apart from Modi and Shah, Nadda may hold a few more rallies beside other senior leaders of the party. BJD Rajya Sabha member and the spokesperson Sasmit Patra said it's natural for political parties to raise their pitch in f the run up to elections to enthuse their cadres. "People have unflinching trust on the leadership of chief minister Naveen Patnaik because of his pro-poor and pro-people governance. All parties would do their political activities, but BJD continues to remain in people's hearts," he said.