Concerned over the expansion plan of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has directed state units to devise a strategy to prevent it from becoming a major opposition party by ousting the Congress.
After its thumping victory in the Punjab Assembly elections, AAP has now shifted its focus to the upcoming Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly.
AAP is also looking at the assembly elections in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan to be held next year.
Apart from Karnataka, where the JD-S has a stake, in the rest of the important states, the BJP is in direct competition with the Congress.
A senior party functionary said all state units are specifically bound to vote and not allow them to set up an organizational base where Arvind Kejriwal’s party plans to expand its footprint in the BJP’s state unit. needed.
“State units have been directed to include AAP leaders, who are carrying out organizational responsibility from district to state level, who are willing to join BJP without any pre-conditions,” he said.
In April, the BJP dealt a major blow to AAP’s ambitious plan to expand the party in Himachal Pradesh by inducting its top state leadership into the party.
“In Gujarat, over 500 AAP leaders holding positions at various levels have joined the BJP in the recent past. In Uttarakhand, AAP’s chief ministerial candidate and others joined the BJP. The BJP has dealt a big blow to Kejriwal’s plan to expand the party to the new state after a historic victory in Punjab by including the Aam Aadmi Party in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat or Uttarakhand and we will continue with it. said the leader.
A party insider said the state unit has been asked to adopt a specific strategy based on the local ground conditions.
“For example, AAP’s freebies will be matched with the development model of each state under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. While the Himachal Pradesh government has countered AAP’s freebies by giving benefits of existing schemes, in Gujarat or Madhya Pradesh it will be undermined along with the development and welfare works of the BJP government.
Meanwhile, the party unit in the national capital has been asked to intensify its attack against Kejriwal’s failed Delhi model, a senior BJP functionary said. Delhi BJP has launched a door-to-door campaign against the AAP government in the national capital.
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