New Delhi, Oct 29: With stakes high in the coming assembly elections, considered semi-finals before the Lok Sabha polls, BJP today decided to mount a fortnight long high-powered campaign led by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in the four states beginning November 18. The party's top leadership, including Vajpayee and Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani, are slated to address 14 meetings spread over a week.
These decisions were taken at a meeting of the central campaign committee here today attended by party general secretaries Pramod Mahajan and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and party leaders O P Kohli and Prakash Javdekar.
As part of the strategy to oust Congress from Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pardesh and Chattisgarh, top state and central leaders will address 590 meetings across the four states with Advani alone scheduled to address 40 rallies in ten days, party sources said.
The dates for meetings of Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister are expected to be finalised at the next meeting of the panel slated for early next month, they said.
According to the schedule, Vajpayee will address four meetings each in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh and two in Delhi. During his campaign, he will address one meeting in each state in a day, the sources said.
The committee also chalked out the programme for the party's senior leaders with the details to be worked out at a subsequent meeting, the sources said adding "the senior leaders will address meetings covering almost all assembly constituencies in the four states." Bureau Report