BJP focus on LS elections

New Delhi, August 27: The BJP on Wednesday got into election mode as it resumed the process of short-listing candidates for the Lok Sabha elections and drawing the blueprint of L K Advani’s Sankalp Yatra, slated to begin on September 15 and conclude by October-end.

While general secretary Arun Jaitley will coordinate the media cell operations, senior leaders have been asked to make television appearances to capture “more mindspace” and win the “war of ideas”.

The BJP’s crucial “core group on elections”, which met here on Wednesday, decided to announce its second list of Lok Sabha candidates, from Uttar Pradesh, early next month.

“We have invited election committees form Jharkhand, Assam, Orissa and Maharashtra to Delhi on September 4-6 for talks,” said BJP president Rajnath Singh. The party’s central election committee had been meeting state election committees to discuss possible LS candidates, until the process was disrupted by the cash-for-votes scam.

The six-member “core group on elections”, headed by M Venkaiah Naidu, has Jaitley, Murli Manohar Joshi, Jaswant Singh, Ananth Kumar and Sushma Swaraj as its other members. The panel had invited top leaders Advani, Rajnath and Ram Lal for Wednesday’s meeting.

While the party chose to go public with the decisions on the candidate selection process and Advani’s Sankalp Yatra, it kept mum on Jaitley’s responsibility. “He had been coordinating with the party spokespersons anyway; there was no reason, therefore, to make an announcement to that effect,” said a leader. The real reason, however, lay in the intense rivalry in the top echelons of the party.

The Orissa situation also figured in Wednesday’s meeting. “I am sending a fact-finding team under general secretary Vinay Katiyar to Orissa to find out the ground situation there,” said Rajnath.

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