RSS, party leadership to review govt report card

Pradeep Sharma

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 1

The two-year report card of the state government under Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar is likely to come under the scanner of the RSS and the BJP leadership at a two-day meeting of the state party executive beginning on October 4 at Hisar.

Party sources said the review of the working of the government, which completes two years on October 26, would be on the agenda at the meeting in which senior RSS and BJP leaders were expected to take part. Besides, preparations for the year-long golden jubilee celebrations, which would kicks off from Gurgaon in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 1, would also be on the agenda at the meeting.

Haryana is pulling out all the spots to make the golden jubilee celebrations a grand success with a series of programmes lined up for one year from November 1 to October 31, 2017. Besides, the functioning of the influential bureaucracy which had been under attack from party office-bearers and MLAs would also be under sharp focus at the meeting.

Recently, BJP joint general secretary (organisation) Shiv Prakash took feedback from party legislators, ministers and grassroots workers about the functioning of the government and the party organisation.

At the feedback sessions, functioning of the government, especially powerful bureaucracy, came in for severe criticism at the hands of certain legislators who alleged that elected representatives were being given a ‘step-motherly’ treatment regarding development works in their segments.

Meanwhile, state BJP spokesman Rajiv Jaitley told The Tribune that the meeting would sensitise the state party leaders to the important decisions taken at the recent BJP national executive in Kochi. “Specialists and experts would dwell on the issues concerning governance and party structure at the two-day meeting for the benefit of the state office-bearers,” Jaitley added.