The revival blueprint will serve as a means to increase the party's support base in the State
The Bharatiya Janata Party will prepare a “vision document” for the betterment of Uttar Pradesh in its quest to retain power in the State where its political fortunes have nosedived and the party has not tasted power on its own since 1991.
The BJP's revival blueprint in the shape of the vision document will serve as a means to increase the party's support base in Uttar Pradesh, it was said.
A 22–member panel, with the former Vidhan Sabha Speaker Kesari Nath Tripathi acting as its convenor, has been constituted for preparing the vision document and it held an informal sitting on the concluding day of the BJP's two-day national executive meeting here on Saturday. Senior leader Hukum Singh will be its co-convenor and the panel includes the leader of the BJP legislature party Om Prakash Singh.
Accusing the Mayawati government of corruption and misrule and holding the Bahujan Samaj Party, Congress and Samajwadi Party responsible for the “plight” of Uttar Pradesh, the BJP has said that, if returned to power, a fast track court would be constituted for the trial of the persons accused of committing various crimes under the present regime.
A resolution on the political situation in U.P. passed on the concluding day of the two-day BJP's national executive meeting here on Saturday presented the party as the only alternative in the State — “BJP's good governance versus the opportunism of BSP, SP and Congress.”
The resolution said the party resolved to establish “Ram rajya” by putting an end to goonda raj and jungle raj. The Ram temple has been mentioned in the resolution, but it follows the hackneyed line of “the BJP making efforts at all levels for the construction of the temple.”
Land acquisition
The resolution moved by U.P.'s election in charge Kalraj Mishra slammed Chief Minister Mayawati for the forced acquisition of farm land and the police lathi charge on farmers of Bhatta-Parsaul, Karchana and Tappal. The resolution said not only had the farmers been deprived of their livelihood, their children too were facing unemployment. In the last four years of Ms. Mayawati's rule, incidents of atrocities on the weaker sections, especially the Dalits and backward classes, had increased. According to the report of the UP's SC, ST Commission, there had been a 30 per cent increase in incidents of excesses against the Dalits, the resolution added.
It said if the BJP formed the government after the 2012 Assembly polls, it would ensure the development of basic infrastructure on a priority basis. Welfare schemes would be launched for the farmers and the acquisition of land would be in accordance with the market rates.
In the 2007 Assembly elections, the BJP was pushed to the third place (it has a strength of about 50 MLAs in the present Vidhan Sabha) and there has been a massive erosion in its support base. This was evident from the fact that in the Assembly by-elections held in the last four years, the BJP has either stood third or fourth, or ended up with its candidates losing their deposits.
Infighting
Groupism and infighting too had gripped the party. Queries on the how the party would curb infighting in U.P. were shrugged off by BJP spokespersons at the meeting.
It has been alleged that the inclusion of senior U.P. BJP leaders in the 22-member panel for drafting the vision document was a step to quell the voices of dissent. Some leaders have been sulking in the sidelines ever since Mr. Kalraj Mishra was named the election in charge of U.P. Fears of infighting gathering momentum was one reason why the BJP did not name any one the chief ministerial candidate, or shadow Chief Minister, unlike in 2007 when the party fought the polls under Kalyan Singh, sources said.
The BJP general secretary and in-charge for U.P. affairs Narendra Singh Tomar told reporters that many programmes would be launched in the State for bringing the people closer to the party.
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