The BJP announced an 11-member campaign committee headed by Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and 20 campaign panels to deal with manifesto drafting, vision document, new voters and media management among others.
The campaign committee includes BJP chief ministers Shivraj Chauhan, Raman Singh and Manohar Parrikar besides central leaders Murli Manohar Joshi, Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj and Venkaiah Naidu. Party veteran L K Advani who had vehemently protested Modi’s appointment as head of the panel at the BJP’s national executive in Goa, has apparently been left out due to his seniority.
Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi’s trusted aide Amit Shah will be part of the BJP’s media management committee, alongside Sudhanshu Trivedi, political advisor to BJP chief Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj.
Party veteran L K Advani, who was not named to any campaign panel, is part of election-related discussions as a member of the BJP parliamentary board which on Thursday cleared the 20 campaign panels and 11-member campaign committee headed by Modi.
The manifesto committee is headed by former party president Murli Manohar Joshi and includes senior leaders Jaswant Singh and Yashwant Sinha.
BJP’s vision document will be drafted by Rajnath Singh’s predecessor Nitin Gadkari. Others on this committee include Gadkari’s associate Vinay Sahasrabuddhe and O P Kohli. Karnataka leader Ananth Kumar will be in-charge of the committee entrusted with planning of rallies, while devising strategies to connect with “new voters” has been assigned to Amit Shah with others including Amritsar MP Navjyot Sidhu and Poonam Mahajan, daughter of late Pramod Mahajan.
BJP general secretary Dharmendra Pradhan is in-charge of public outreach. Reaching out to different sections of professionals will be overseen by RSS appointee Murlidhar Rao and Vinay Katiyar. A committee for “special contact” will be headed by Gadkari and election-related organization is the charge of Ramlal.
RS MP Mukhtar Naqvi is incharge of logistics like travel and programmes while Bihar leader Rajiv Rudy has been given charge of booth management.
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