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New Delhi: At such a time, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is busy in infusing energy in its cadre instead of Chief Ministers in one state after another, where it is not in power, the fight is proving to be a headache.
Concerned over rising factionalism in the Rajasthan BJP, party’s national general secretary (organisation) BL Santosh has directed leaders to focus on strengthening the party during a two-day ‘Chintan Shivir’ that concluded on Thursday in Rajasthan’s Kumbhalgarh. .
State President Satish Poonia also said that the Parliamentary Board will decide on the CM candidate.
Supporters of Vasundhara Raje are demanding that she be made the chief ministerial candidate for the 2023 elections.
“satisfactionYes Asked everyone to focus on the 2023 election and work for it. He asked the leaders and party functionaries to keep factionalism away from the party as it would harm the organization itself. “His mantra was simple – focus on highlighting the work of the Modi government and presenting a united face.”
This is not the first time the central leadership has intervened. In June this year, BJP Rajasthan in-charge Arun Singh was warned Party leaders said strict action would be taken against those trying to harass the BJP.
The state unit is constantly battling with internal strife between supporters of former CM Vasundhara Raje and state president Satish Poonia.
“The party’s goal of Mission 2023 is that the perception of power alternating between the BJP and the Congress needs to end. We will come to power because of the policy and measures of the Modi government and the work being done by our unit at the state level,” said another senior BJP leader. BJP wants to come to power on the basis of the merits and demerits of the organization, work is being done on this action plan.
Though the absence of senior leaders, including former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, Labor and Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav and Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, all from Rajasthan, raised eyebrows, the state unit said it was due to personal reasons.
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state unit surrounded by divisions
The in-fighting in Rajasthan BJP dates back to the 2018 assembly elections – which the party lost. As chief minister till 2018, Raje did not interfere with the central leadership in the affairs of the state. However, he was sidelined after the 2018 assembly elections.
Over the past few months, many in the state unit have been claiming that Raje, who is also the party’s vice president, is trying to run a ‘parallel system’ – including the Covid welfare initiative – with a focus only on , not at the party. .
In January, his supporters Make ‘Vasundhara Raje Samarth Manch Rajasthan’, and demanded that Raje be declared the party’s chief ministerial face for the 2023 elections. Not only this, the Manch had recently launched an office in Jaipur, which raised eyebrows within the party itself.
Speaking to the media after the conclusion of the Chintan Shivir, Poonia said that the party would focus on the achievements of the Modi government and its own work at the state level for the 2023 elections. “The parliamentary board will decide on the chief ministerial candidate. As far as we are concerned, we are focused on strengthening the party to come to power in 2023,” he told ThePrint.
During the meeting, all the 200 seats and the areas where the party needs to focus more were discussed. “We discussed in detail the seats we won and lost and the reasons for it. It has been decided to be more aggressive in our approach in targeting the failure of the Gehlot government,” said another senior leader.
(Edited by Arun Prashant)
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