This story is from January 10, 2015

BJP top body focuses on Shah’s rally

As the entire focus of the Punjab BJP’s core committee and state executive meeting remained on the membership, party president Amit Shah’s rally in the state and awareness yatra on drugs, the convention ended without any political resolution unlike the previous occasions. Sources said there was no discussion on political situation of Punjab or the Centre even though the working committee meeting was held after a year.
BJP top body focuses on Shah’s rally
PHAGWARA: As the entire focus of the Punjab BJP’s core committee and state executive meeting remained on the membership, party president Amit Shah’s rally in the state and awareness yatra on drugs, the convention ended without any political resolution unlike the previous occasions. Sources said there was no discussion on political situation of Punjab or the Centre even though the working committee meeting was held after a year.

BJP is set to make Shah’s rally on January 22 in Amritsar a show of strength. Party secretary Tarun Chugh, during his address in the meeting, exhorted workers to gather 2 lakh people in the rally and gave a call that all district presidents should ensure that people should come from each and every constituency of the state. He also underlined that the party had to prepare itself in all the 117 constituencies of the state but stopped short of saying explicitly that BJP was planning to contest the 2017 Punjab assembly elections on its own.
About the anti-drug yatra being organized by Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, the BJP leaders from across the state were told that the march would try to touch maximum villages and night stay of participants would be held in a ‘qasba (town)’. “Before Amit Shah’s rally, try to enroll maximum members to the party and then during the yatra we shall reach out to maximum people in the state,” was the message given to the local members by the state leadership.
Gujarat BJP MLA Harsh R Sanghvi, general secretary of BJYM, who has been specially sent to Punjab by Shah to coordinate the yatra, was also present in the meeting. While nine lakh members have already been enrolled from Punjab, the state leadership told its district units that every booth in the state should have at least 100 members. There are over 21,000 booths across Punjab, which would take the BJP membership to at least 21 lakh, said the party leaders.
Before the state executive meeting, core committee of the Punjab BJP also met at the same venue. The core committee also focused on these three issues. “It is for the first time that a political resolution has not been passed,” said an executive member who was present in the meeting.
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