BJP general secretary and Telangana in-charge Sunil Bansal. (Twitter)
The BJP national leadership has made no bones about the need for the party’s Telangana unit to work as a well-oiled machine. The message to state leaders is clear as crystal: Stop squabbling with one another. Pull up your socks and work shoulder-to-shoulder to take the party forward in the state.
And those who do not fall in line, will be shown the door.
BJP Telangana in-charge Sunil Bansal put across this message in unambiguous terms while addressing a three-day state-level training camp in Hyderabad which ended on Tuesday, 22 November, according to party members who participated in the meeting.
Bansal made these comments when a delegate from Nizamabad brought to his notice that groupism was rampant in his district at a time when the party should be preparing for its Jaitra Yatra, or journey to victory.
Taking serious note of the delegate’s observation, Bansal, speaking at what is called the party’s “organisational conference”, stressed the need to prepare the party to ride to power in the next elections.
Bansal told the participants point blank that there will be no tolerating of group politics. Those who indulge in groupism or one-upmanship would be sent out of the party. .
The focus of the meeting was identifying the grey areas in the party so as to be able to take corrective action well in time.
The party’s national leadership, according to Bansal, would focus on Telangana soon after the Gujarat elections are done and dusted, and the party president JP Nadda would continue to guide them from time to time.
He also told the participants that Bandi Sanjay Kumar would continue as the party’s state president.
Bansal asked the party leadership in the state to form committees for the districts and appoint in-charges based on performance. He underscored the point that without the party acquiring strength internally, it would become difficult to face the Assembly elections scheduled for end-2023.
He said that those appointed as in-charges for districts should manage the affairs in their area well. If an in-charge of any district is not in a position to work, he should resign and make way for someone else. Let the in-charges explain to the party leadership if they have any problems in the beginning itself, Bansal said.
In the ensuing months, attention would be focused on the formation of Polling Booth Committees and strengthening them. All Polling Booth Committees should have a full complement of 22 members and they have to be constituted in all the 119 Assembly constituencies in the state, Bansal said.
Meetings of the Polling Booth Committees should also be organised in each Assembly constituency. Each Assembly segment committee will be supervised by the state president of the party, he said.
