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Udta Punjab catching up: Eyeing 2024 elections, state BJP unit plans major reforms to increase footprint

August 29, 2022
Bharat Times

With the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in mind, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is contemplating a major organizational reform to expand its footprint in the political landscape of Punjab.

Reliable party sources said that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi He had also taken stock of the organizational strength of the BJP during his brief meeting with party leaders on the sidelines of his recent visit to the state to inaugurate a cancer hospital.

The party is planning to make changes in the state core committees, district committees and morchas. The leadership of these committees may be changed to accommodate new entrants.

“Apart from the bottom level, changes can be made at the top level as well. It will also include those Congress leaders who had joined the BJP a few months back. The party is planning to expand its organizational structure and may offer important positions to leaders who have joined after leaving the Congress,” revealed a senior party leader.

It may be recalled that former PCC president Sunil Jakhar and four former cabinet ministers – Balbir Singh Sidhu, Rajkumar Verka, Gurpreet Kangar and Sunder Sham Arora – had left the Congress and joined the BJP after the party’s electoral defeat. .

Even before this, Rana Gurmeet Sodhi and Fateh Jung Bajwa had joined the party before the assembly elections. He is already active in the organizational structure of the party.

Sources said the change was necessary as the party is planning to increase its presence during the Lok Sabha polls and is looking at contesting all the 13 Lok Sabha seats in the state. Earlier, the party has been second in alliance with Akali Dal, but this time it may go it alone.

It is noteworthy that the three-year term of state party president Ashwini Sharma ends in January and there are murmurs within the party that there may be a change at the top. The party fared poorly in the recently held assembly elections, in which it shared more than six per cent of the vote in 73 seats.

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