Eyeing revival, BJP replaces 20 district chiefs

Sanjeev Singh Bariana
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, November 14

Sending strong signals of revival of party activities for the next parliamentary elections, the state unit of the BJP has changed at least 20 district presidents, out of the total 33, recently.

Confirming the development, president of the state unit Shwait Malik said, “We have made changes only with an intention of having an involvement of fresh faces, particularly youth, in carrying forward our party agenda. New faces are being given the charge to show their potential. Senior leaders, who were replaced, have been assigned new responsibilities.”

Malik said, “The party is, in fact, engaged in a long chain of activities from now onwards. We have our organisational meeting in Ludhiana on Thursday. This will be followed by three different meetings in Chandigarh on November 17. A special programme in the memory of senior leader and a former MP Dr Baldev Parkash will be held in Amritsar on November 19.”

Malik said, “We are commencing the exercise of reaching out to our workers at the grassroots with a function at Mukerian on November 20. This will mark the beginning of earmarking our ‘shakti kendras’. Each kendra will be assigned a set of five polling booths.”

The party had earmarked two media centres at Amritsar and Chandigarh. General secretary Dyal Singh Sodhi was given the overall charge of the assignment. He would be assisted by Maj (retd) RS Gill and Janardhan Sharma, he said. “The first meeting will feature the core group, also comprising former presidents. It will take up challenges the party is facing in the state. There will be separate meetings of the state executive of the party and the district presidents,” he said.