The important leaders of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), including the Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat and his Cabinet colleagues, are now in Haldwani to take part in the meeting of the State working committee on Sunday during which the performance of the ministers is likely to be discussed. It is learnt that the party has directed all its ministers to present their report cards to the working committee members. The scrutiny of the work of the ministers and means of ensuring better coordination between the government and the organisation are likely to be discussed during the important meeting, the senior party leaders informed on Saturday.
The brainstorming session has assumed importance as the party is now engaged in firming up its strategy for forthcoming elections to the urban local bodies. The party sources said that the strategy would be given its final shape during the meeting to be attended by the district heads and also the heads of the party’s frontal organizations aside from the senior state level leaders . The Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, the former CMs from the party, all the MPs and MLAs, presidents and secretaries of the district units and presidents and secretaries of all the frontal organizations of the party would participate in the session. Endorsement on the party’s recent decision to reduce the number of organizational districts of the party from 23 to 14 would also be done during the session.
The national vice- president of the party Shyam Jaju would also be present during the deliberations, a senior party leader said.
The party sources further said that the meeting would take stock of the political scenario in the state with the opposition Congress trying to make its presence felt on several issues like the emotive one of the capital shift from the plains to the hills.