Govt formed, BJP focuses on internal polls
With the government firmly in the saddle now, the top brass of the state BJP held a meeting on Sunday to discuss the pending issue of internal organisation elections and draw up a schedule for the election of the state president.
The two-hour meeting at the party office on Pandit Pant Marg here finalised a schedule under which booth level committees, mandal level committees followed by district committees will be elected.
The meeting was attended by BJP’s national joint general secretary organisation Shiv Prakash (a RSS representative), Delhi BJP election officer Naresh Bansal, Delhi state organisational secretary Pavan Rana and other senior leaders of BJP. Elections at every next level are held once 50 % committees at the level lower than the first are filled.
“For mandal presidents to be elected, 50 % booth level presidents should have been elected. For district president election to be held, 50% mandal presidents should have been elected. Likewise, once 50% of all state unit chiefs have been elected, the national president’s election is held,” a senior BJP leader said today.
Delhi was among states where organisational election process was delayed due to Assembly elections.
With the Cabinet in place, the BJP is now turning its full attention towards the party organisational polls due for a long time. Asked when the state BJP chief’s election could be held, a source said by April end. There is however a likelihood of no requirement to elect a new Delhi BJP president.
“If the name of the BJP national president is announced, which may happen by the second week of April, then there would be no need left for the state president’s election in Delhi. In such a scenario, the new BJP president can nominate a president because the constitutional requirement of conducting state presidential election in 50 % of the BJP units in states and UTs would have been met before announcing the name of the new BJP chief,” said a leader.
BJP Delhi sources noted that booth level committees would be in place before April 15.
