Miffed with infighting and lack of coordination among state leaders that may harm the party’s prospects in the upcoming Delhi assembly polls, BJP’s national president Amit Shah has decided to take charge of the election machinery in the Capital from 25 December , a top party leader has said.
According to a senior party leader who is in the know of the development, Shah is currently occupied with the polls in Jharkhand and Jammu & Kashmir but once the results are out, he will shift focus to Delhi and dedicate at least two months before the assembly election are held, likely in February 2015. “The Delhi BJP needs direction and guidance from a single authority. At present, everyone is acting like a captain of the ship which has created lot of confusion,” said the leader.
The source informed owing to the threat from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Shah started keeping an eye on the political developments in Delhi, where BJP has remained out of power for the last 15 years.
“He (Shah) knows Delhi is not like other states where the contest is between BJP and Congress. The general anti-Congress mood prevailing across the nation has helped BJP. But in Delhi, it’s the AAP that is the main opponent of the BJP. Therefore, the party needs to put in much more effort but Shah knows that the party is struggling with infighting and poor coordination,” the leader informed.
Though, such allegations have been levelled against the party earlier as well, this time the cracks are clearly visible. A couple of weeks back a party leader, in charge of an event, openly chided a party spokesperson for talking to the media about the preparations.