LUCKNOW: UP BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh on Sunday said that the poor and farmers would lay the foundation of a huge victory of BJP supported candidates in the forthcoming panchayat elections. His observation came a day after the gram chaupal campaign of the saffron party came to an end.
Singh claimed that the public support is in favour of the BJP which is being driven by the public welfares schemes initiated by the Narendra Modi led government at the Centre and the Yogi Adityanath government in the state.
He said that the party was regularly assessing the impact of its various campaigns which are aimed at reaching out to the maximum possible people in the run up to rural local bodies’ elections.
The party had formed a core team comprising UP BJP vice-president panchayat election in-charge Vijay Bahadur Pathak, besides senior party leaders including Daya Shankar Singh, Sanjay Rai, Subhash Yaduvansh, Prakash Pal and Babu Ram Nishad to assess the impact of gram chaupal campaign.
The leaders have been giving their feedbacks about the 10-day campaign which spanned between March 11 and March 20 and aimed to take the public welfare schemes of the BJP government at the Centre and state to the people.
Daya Shankar Singh, who is also UP BJP vice-president, said that the party managed to reach out to 55,000-gram panchayats during the period.
He said that the party was able to send out a message of Sabka Saath Sabka Vishwas in rural areas. BJP leaders said that booth level functionaries also carried out a door-to-door contact drive as part of the campaign.