New Delhi: Top Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS leaders are meeting about 30 union ministers from the BJP today to finalise a strategy for the Uttar Pradesh elections. It is being called a coordination meeting to ensure the BJP and its ideological mentor are in sync for the crucial election.
"There is need for the BJP and the RSS to calibrate their strategy for the UP polls like we did in the Assam polls. The RSS does not want a Bihar-like situation where poor coordination impacted the outcome," said a senior RSS leader.
A cabinet minister said the RSS also wants to fix what it is calling a code of conduct for the UP elections. During the Bihar elections last year, comments by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and BJP leaders like General VK Singh were seen to have hurt the party in its efforts to win over sections of voters. The BJP was handed a crushing defeat by the coalition led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
The meeting, said a minister, also aims at better communication between ministers frame government policy and the RSS, whose vast cadres in states like UP are used by the party to carry its message to voters. Today's meeting will discuss how to spread word about the Modi Government's pro-poor policies.
RSS deputy chief Dattatreya Hosbole is said to be presiding over the meetings, which began at 8 in the morning and are being held in small batches. BJP chief Amit Shah will drop in for key discussions and home minister Rajnath Singh and Finance Min Arun Jaitley are among the ministers who will participate.
"There is need for the BJP and the RSS to calibrate their strategy for the UP polls like we did in the Assam polls. The RSS does not want a Bihar-like situation where poor coordination impacted the outcome," said a senior RSS leader.
A cabinet minister said the RSS also wants to fix what it is calling a code of conduct for the UP elections. During the Bihar elections last year, comments by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and BJP leaders like General VK Singh were seen to have hurt the party in its efforts to win over sections of voters. The BJP was handed a crushing defeat by the coalition led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
The meeting, said a minister, also aims at better communication between ministers frame government policy and the RSS, whose vast cadres in states like UP are used by the party to carry its message to voters. Today's meeting will discuss how to spread word about the Modi Government's pro-poor policies.
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RSS deputy chief Dattatreya Hosbole is said to be presiding over the meetings, which began at 8 in the morning and are being held in small batches. BJP chief Amit Shah will drop in for key discussions and home minister Rajnath Singh and Finance Min Arun Jaitley are among the ministers who will participate.
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