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Separate manifestos for assembly elections: BJP
New Delhi, June 12: BJP will have separate manifestos in the coming assembly elections for five states but the party refused to disclose its strategy whether it would project its pet issues like Ram Temple.
New Delhi, June 12: BJP will have separate manifestos in the coming assembly elections for five states but the party refused to disclose its strategy whether it would project its pet issues like Ram Temple.
"Even though the party has never made its ideology an election issue, we are not apologetic about it. Every state would have its own manifesto but the manifestos would also have national issues," party spokesman Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told reporters after a two-hour meeting of the national election campaign committee here today.
Asked whether the party will project the three contentious issues of ram temple, abrogation of Article 370 giving special status to Jammu and Kashmir and Uniform Civil Code, he said, "When the manifesto is ready you would know what the issues are there. Our focus would be development and good governance."
He said the manifesto would be prepared in consultation with the concerned state units so that it could highlight the problems of the states.
Naqvi said that the party would come out with a chargesheet against the Congress-ruled states and the task of preparing it has been given to Balbir Punj, who is a member of the campaign committee.
The party, while focussing on the failure of the present governments in these states, would highlight the achievements of the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre under the leadership of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
The meeting, chaired by party president m Venkaiah Naidu, decided that the party would also focus on the issue of anti-conversion as "it is not merely a state level issue but one which concerns the entire country," Naqvi said.
Asked why the party was undecided on Chhattisgarh while it had taken a decision on this matter for other states much ahead of the assembly elections, Naqvi said, "The Chhattisgarh state unit would decide on leadership later."
Another issue which the party would highlight is cow slaughter, he said.
As part of the exercise to streamline its preparation for the assembly elections, the meeting appointed three-member committee for each of the four states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Delhi.
Party general secretary Sanjay Joshi would be in charge of elections in Madhya Pradesh, former Jharkhand chief minister Babulal Marandi in charge of Chhattisgarh, another general secretary Pramod Mahajan for Rajasthan and Naqvi in-charge of Delhi.
The four ministers who have been made in charge of states are Arun Jaitley (MP), Rajnath Singh (Chhattisgarh), Ravi Shanker Prasad (Rajasthan) and Ananth Kumar (Delhi).
Naqvi has also been made in charge of coordination and tour programmes while BJP leader from Maharasthra, Prakash Jawadkar will be additional spokesman and in charge of media.
The party has appointed Amitabh Sinha (MP), Prabhat Jha (Chhattisgarh), Dinanath Mishra (Rajasthan) and Siddharth Nath Singh (Delhi) in charge of publicity in these states.
Bureau Report
Asked whether the party will project the three contentious issues of ram temple, abrogation of Article 370 giving special status to Jammu and Kashmir and Uniform Civil Code, he said, "When the manifesto is ready you would know what the issues are there. Our focus would be development and good governance."
He said the manifesto would be prepared in consultation with the concerned state units so that it could highlight the problems of the states.
Naqvi said that the party would come out with a chargesheet against the Congress-ruled states and the task of preparing it has been given to Balbir Punj, who is a member of the campaign committee.
The party, while focussing on the failure of the present governments in these states, would highlight the achievements of the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre under the leadership of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
The meeting, chaired by party president m Venkaiah Naidu, decided that the party would also focus on the issue of anti-conversion as "it is not merely a state level issue but one which concerns the entire country," Naqvi said.
Asked why the party was undecided on Chhattisgarh while it had taken a decision on this matter for other states much ahead of the assembly elections, Naqvi said, "The Chhattisgarh state unit would decide on leadership later."
Another issue which the party would highlight is cow slaughter, he said.
As part of the exercise to streamline its preparation for the assembly elections, the meeting appointed three-member committee for each of the four states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Delhi.
Party general secretary Sanjay Joshi would be in charge of elections in Madhya Pradesh, former Jharkhand chief minister Babulal Marandi in charge of Chhattisgarh, another general secretary Pramod Mahajan for Rajasthan and Naqvi in-charge of Delhi.
The four ministers who have been made in charge of states are Arun Jaitley (MP), Rajnath Singh (Chhattisgarh), Ravi Shanker Prasad (Rajasthan) and Ananth Kumar (Delhi).
Naqvi has also been made in charge of coordination and tour programmes while BJP leader from Maharasthra, Prakash Jawadkar will be additional spokesman and in charge of media.
The party has appointed Amitabh Sinha (MP), Prabhat Jha (Chhattisgarh), Dinanath Mishra (Rajasthan) and Siddharth Nath Singh (Delhi) in charge of publicity in these states.
Bureau Report