Amit Shah meets Delhi BJP leaders ahead of elections

Update: 2014-11-19 23:08 GMT
According to sources, Shah asked party leaders to work unitedly and include maximum number of workers in the party for the ongoing membership campaign.

‘His main focus was strengthen booth level management by forming booth level committees of at least 50 workers, shun the infighting and work for ongoing membership campaign,’ said a senior leader present in the meeting.

The meeting was attended by almost all the senior leaders, MLAs, MPs councillors, district presidents and state level office bearers. Shah also directed the MPs to be more active in their area, former MLAs to prepare for the election which may happen any time in February.

He also met all the chiefs of various fronts including minority morcha, women cell, traders’ cell etc. and directed them to spruce up preparations for the upcoming assembly polls. ??According to sources, Shah directed that a 10-member team be set up in each of the 70 assembly constituencies.

In addition, Delhi will be segregated on the basis of castes, and campaigning will be done keeping in mind the dominant group in a particular constituency, a party source added.

The sitting parliamentarians have been specially asked to supervise all campaign work that will begin soon. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will himself monitor the poll preparations.

The BJP, this time, is not projecting the chief ministerial candidate and according to insiders the campaign would be led by Shah and he would devote his full time and attention to the national Capital after assembly elections in Jammu & Kashmir and Jharkhand are completed. The meeting was held at the BJP central headquarters at Ashoka Road.

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