MP: BJP's working committee meets in Gwalior to set agenda for assembly polls

The Madhya Pradesh BJPs working committee on Sunday held a meeting in Gwalior to draw its strategy for the yearend assembly polls in the state wherein a resolution was passed urging party workers to highlight among voters the past Congress governments misrule and saffron partyled dispensations achievementsUnion Home Minister Amit Shah who spoke at the daylong meeting set the target of winning more than 150 out of the total 230 seats in the stateThis last meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Partys state working committee ahead of the yearend elections was inaugurated by Union minister Bhupender Yadav around 11 am and it continued till eveningAround 1700 party leaders and officebearers including MLAs MPs district presidents and general secretaries attended the meetingApart from Shah who is the BJPs key strategist and Yadav the partys MP election incharge several other prominent leaders of the party were present on the occasionBJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya tabled a political resolution highlighting the achievements of the governments in Madhya Pradesh and Centre stating that 136 crore people in the state have come out of the poverty line between 2019 and 2021 a party functionary who attended the meeting told PTIAmong other things the resolution said the per capita income was on the rise in the country and the state he saidUnion ministers Prahlad Patel Faggan Singh Kulaste Jyotiraditya Scindia among others spoke on it before it was passed unanimously he addedThe resolution asked the party cadres to expose the misrule of the Congress before 2003 in MP highlighting the bad condition of the state under Congress rule between 1993 and 2003 when Digvijaya Singh was the chief minister the functionary saidThe resolution underlined the need of highlighting the grim condition of roads power cuts and shortage of water which plagued MP at that time when it was called a BIMARU ailing state an acronym for Bihar Madhya Pradesh Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh due the shortfall in several social health and economic parametersThe BIMARU acronym has often been used to refer to Bihar Madhya Pradesh Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh to imply that these states lagged in terms of economic growth health care education and other indicesDuring his speech at the meeting Shah called upon the party functionaries to embrace the slogan Mera Booth Sabse Majboot My poll booth strongest one and work for winning more than 150 seats out of 230 in MPHe said the booth workers motivate people to cast their votesHe also called upon the participants to take a pledge to wrest the lone Lok Sabha Seat from the Congress in the next years general electionsShahs cabinet colleagues Narendra Singh Tomar Ashwini Vaishnaw urged the 1700 participants of the meeting to reach out to the public on a massive scale to tell them about welfare schemes of the BJP government and their benefits a party officebearer saidThey were also asked to highlight among the people the negative politics of the Congress he addedThe BJP has been in power in the central state since 2003 except for a break between December 2018 and March 2020 when the state had a Congress government under Kamal NathThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever