BJP gears up for Amit Shah’s rally

Ambika Sharma

Tribune News Service

Solan, December 8

Senior BJP leaders have descended on the town to oversee preparations for party’s first “Tridev Sammelan” which will be addressed by the national party president Amit Shah at Thodo Ground here on December 11. National organisational secretary Ramlal is also slated to address the party workers on the occasion.

While elaborate arrangements to accommodate 6,000 booth level workers were being given the final touches, senior leaders, including party’s general secretary Chander Mohan Thakur, party’s chief spokesman Dr Rajiv Bindal and organisational secretary Pawan Rana were camping in the town to oversee the arrangements. Other senior leaders, including state president Satpal Satti and state in-charge Shrikant Sharma, were likely to arrive in the next two days.

BJP sources informed that three-tier booth-level office-bearers comprising booth palaks, booth president and booth agents from 1940 booths of 17 Vidhan Sabha constituencies in the Shimla parliamentary segment comprising Solan, Shimla and Sirmaur districts would assemble for the “Tridev Sammelan”. About 100 other booth-level representatives from Rampur, which was part of the Mandi Parliamentary segment, were also expected to join this congregation where the senior leaders would give tips to the party workers on how to galvanize the masses ahead of the next year’s Vidhan Sabha elections.

This was the first such parliamentary level congregation of booth level party leaders while three more such programmes would be held in the other parliamentary segments of the state. The “tridev sammelan” will help activate the BJP’s grassroot level worker to gear up for next year’s the elections next year.

Former chief ministers PK Dhumal, Shanta Kumar, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare JP Nadda, MPs and office-bearers would also be present. The party’s core committee comprising senior leaders will also meet later in the day and discuss various crucial agendas, including poll preparedness and strategy to attack the Congress government. Since this meeting was now being held every month it will take stock of the programmes decided earlier and decide the future course of the party’s programmes.

The charge-sheet committee headed by MLA Suresh Bhardwaj is also slated to meet the same evening and discuss the information gathered on the acts of omission and commission pertaining to the state government’s four-year rule as the charge-sheet has to be finalised before December 25.