New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party had announced a fleet of 20 star-studded committees to manage different aspects of election campaign of BJP under the chief of election campaign committee Narendra Modi on Friday.
The BJP’s parliamentary board, made up of its top 12 leaders, had signed off on these committees after a marathon meeting on Thursday.
A central election committee of 15 members will have, apart from Modi, leaders like LK Advani and former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, party president Rajnath Singh, former party presidents Venkaiah Naidu and Nitin Gadkari, key leaders Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley and the BJP’s chief ministers.
Senior leader Ananth Kumar announced on Friday that Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley will look after all publicity. These teams include Modi-aides – PK Dhumal will help with the manifesto and the controversial former Gujarat minister Amit Shah is part of the publicity team. Murli Manohar Joshi will head the manifesto team for the 2014 general elections; Amit Shah will also partner with Navjyot Singh Sidhu to focus on new voters. Rajya Sabha MP Piyush Goyal will handle the party’s activities online, specifically on social media.
Venkiah Naidu and Varun Gandhi, party general secretary will be in charge of organising more than 100 big rallies in different states from August, in which the BJP will field “a galaxy of leaders.”
Nitin Gadkari is leading the exercise to fashion the vision document for 2014 of BJP. He has also been given special charge of Delhi, which votes for a new Assembly later this year.
Bureau Report
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