BJP to Form Chain of WhatsApp Groups Linking Workers With Leaders

BJP advised its booth workers to meet 10 families a week who don’t support BJP and persuade them to vote for it.

BJP President Amit Shah addresses a booth-level workers meeting in New Delhi on 23 December.

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The BJP on Sunday, 23 December, decided to form a chain of WhatsApp groups, linking party workers with its national leadership, in a bid to strengthen communication channels between them ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

In the first conclave of BJP's booth in-charges in Delhi, senior party leaders, including party President Amit Shah, gave ‘mantra’ of victory for 2019 and slammed Congress and ruling AAP in Delhi.

Addressing the booth-level office bearers, BJP's national general secretary (organisation) Ram Lal said “a chain of WhatsApp groups linking Panna Pramukh up to national level leaders will be set up by January next year."

‘Panna Pramukh’ are booth-level BJP workers who are responsible for keeping in touch with voters named in one page (panna) of an electoral roll in a constituency.

‘Meet 10 Families Who Don’t Support BJP Every Week’

Lal also advised booth workers to meet at least 10 families every week who do not support BJP and persuade them to vote for the party in 2019 polls.

“If you meet 10 such families, till the next Lok Sabha elections the party will reach up to around 25 lakh such new families in Delhi,” he said.

He also advised them to prepare a list of “influential” people residing in the area of their booths and also hold gatherings to listen to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’.

The booth in-charges were also told to study causes of BJP's defeat in previous years and ensure contact will all the voters in their booth.

The party leaders also mounted an attack on Congress President Rahul Gandhi and AAP convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

Ram Lal asked them not to get influenced by “lies” of the AAP and the Congress and give the slogan, “Congress Desh Lootati Hai, Rahul Jhooth Bolte Hain (Congress loots the country, Rahul lies).”

‘The Whole City Coughs Because of AAP Rules in Delhi’

Union Minister Vijay Goel said “slackness” cannot be afforded because the BJP is pitted against the AAP and Congress, which are involved in “lies and treachery”.

He attacked Kejriwal on the air pollution problem in the city by quipping “earlier, he used to cough, now the whole city coughs because [of] AAP rules in Delhi.”

Union Minister Harsh Vardhan, representing the Chandni Chowk Lok Sabha seat, said:

“Delhi people now know the reality of the AAP and Congress and will give them a befitting reply even if they form an alliance for 2019.”

Union Minister Harsh Vardhan

He also accused Kejriwal government of denying benefits of Ayushman Bharat scheme to Delhi people.

Delhi BJP President Manoj Tiwari said the party workers will retain all the seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi and make Narendra Modi Prime Minister for the second term.

The party leaders also asked the workers to “expose” the failures of the Kejriwal government by holding discussions on its “vision document” and posting pictures of overcrowded buses, filth at Mohalla clinics and road potholes on social media platforms.