New Delhi:
The broad contours of Team Modi 2014 are now in place and a first look is expected on Friday.
The BJP's parliamentary board, made up of its top 12 leaders, met on Thursday and after two hours of deliberations created about 15 committees to manage different aspects of the BJP's election campaign under the stewardship of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
These committees, to be announced today, will be headed by party general secretaries and other key leaders. Sources said rather than hand zone-wise responsibility to BJP bigwigs like Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley as had been proposed, the party is likely to give them functional responsibilities in the new committees; the working of each panel will be supervised by Mr Modi, who was elevated recently as the party's election campaign chief, and BJP president Rajnath Singh.
Thursday's exercise is being seen as an attempt by Mr Singh and Mr Modi to keep all key BJP leaders involved in the campaign plan and process for the Lok Sabha elections and Assembly elections in four states later this year.
Both Mr Singh and Mr Modi were advised by the RSS at recent meetings in Nagpur to ensure that the party's campaign reflects collective leadership and does not seem like a one-man, read Modi, show.
The RSS or Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is the ideological parent of the BJP. It has spent the last few weeks since Mr Modi's promotion in a major exercise to quell all opposition within to him as the pivot of the party's campaign for the next general elections.
Firmly in the driver's seat, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat was in Delhi on Thursday as the BJP parliamentary party met in the capital.
Mr Bhagwat, who had intervened to end senior leader LK Advani's public sulk over Mr Modi's promotion last month, has been working to a plan since. He heard out BJP seniors like Mr Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi at long meetings over lunch and then reportedly told the BJP chief that they must be given their due importance in the party's campaign, also making clear that no more opposition to Mr Modi would be brooked. Later in the evening, Mr Modi met Mr Advani at latter's residence.
On Tuesday evening, Mr Bhagwat met Mr Modi over dinner and signed off on his campaign plan, mandating that it must also focus on the Ayodhya Ram temple issue.
The BJP's parliamentary board, made up of its top 12 leaders, met on Thursday and after two hours of deliberations created about 15 committees to manage different aspects of the BJP's election campaign under the stewardship of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
These committees, to be announced today, will be headed by party general secretaries and other key leaders. Sources said rather than hand zone-wise responsibility to BJP bigwigs like Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley as had been proposed, the party is likely to give them functional responsibilities in the new committees; the working of each panel will be supervised by Mr Modi, who was elevated recently as the party's election campaign chief, and BJP president Rajnath Singh.
Thursday's exercise is being seen as an attempt by Mr Singh and Mr Modi to keep all key BJP leaders involved in the campaign plan and process for the Lok Sabha elections and Assembly elections in four states later this year.
Both Mr Singh and Mr Modi were advised by the RSS at recent meetings in Nagpur to ensure that the party's campaign reflects collective leadership and does not seem like a one-man, read Modi, show.
The RSS or Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is the ideological parent of the BJP. It has spent the last few weeks since Mr Modi's promotion in a major exercise to quell all opposition within to him as the pivot of the party's campaign for the next general elections.
Firmly in the driver's seat, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat was in Delhi on Thursday as the BJP parliamentary party met in the capital.
Mr Bhagwat, who had intervened to end senior leader LK Advani's public sulk over Mr Modi's promotion last month, has been working to a plan since. He heard out BJP seniors like Mr Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi at long meetings over lunch and then reportedly told the BJP chief that they must be given their due importance in the party's campaign, also making clear that no more opposition to Mr Modi would be brooked. Later in the evening, Mr Modi met Mr Advani at latter's residence.
On Tuesday evening, Mr Bhagwat met Mr Modi over dinner and signed off on his campaign plan, mandating that it must also focus on the Ayodhya Ram temple issue.
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