Updated On: 08 May, 2024 07:15 AM IST | Mumbai | Dharmendra Jore
Party to hold local leaders responsible if turnouts don’t increase in the remaining rounds

Voters queue up outside a polling booth. Pic/PTI
The top leadership of BJP is upset because of unexpected low turnout in the last two phases. Reports coming from the third round of voting in Maharashtra and elsewhere in the country revealed that the ruling party had issued a warning-like instruction down the line to ensure the increase in voting percentage. In case of low turnout in their respective areas the local leaders will be held responsible. The target set is an increase of at least 370 votes at each booth.
The ruling party’s strength is its deep-rooted organisation and the support it gets from the RSS volunteers to ensure that the party sympathisers go out and vote. The BJP has devised a method called ‘Panna Pramukh’ in which a person is put in charge of one page of the electoral roll. The pramukh must ensure that the voters she or he is responsible for are given information about the party candidate and polling booths.