With Lok Sabha elections just a few months away, the BJP gets battle-ready. On Sunday, the Bharatiya Janata Party declared its list of committees. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh would head the crucial manifesto committee. In the manifesto committee, Rajnath Singh will have Arun Jaitley, Kiren Rijiju, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Nirmala Sitharaman, Piyush Goyal, Thaawar Chand Gehlot, K J Alphons, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi. The Rajnath Singh-led manifesto committee will also have some other senior BJP leaders as Ram Madhav, Narayan Rane, Arjun Munda, Bhupendra Yadav, Sanjay Paswan, Meenakshi Lekhi, Rajendra Mohan Singh Cheema and Hari Babu as its members. Other members in the committee include the names of former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Bihar deputy CM Sushil Modi, and Uttar Pradesh deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya.
Known for his fine oratory skills and good relations across the party and in media- Finance Minister Arun Jaitley would lead the publicity committee. In his 8-member committee, Jaitley has Goel, I&B minister Rajyavardhan Rathore, general secretary Anil Jain, Union Minister Mahesh Sharma, former Delhi BJP chief Satish Upadhyay, Rajya Sabha MP Rajeev Chandrashekhar, and Rituraj Sinha.
BJP President Amit Shah has stressed a lot of emphasis on communication. There will be in total 17 groups dedicated to communication only.
A leader well known for his cross-party contacts and good links with corporate houses, Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari would head a team to coordinate with social and non-governmental organisations. Kailash Vijayvargya, Sadanand Gowda, SS Ahluwalia, Shiv Prasad Shukla, Vijay Sampla, and national secretary RP Singh are also the members of this team. According to the Indian Express report, during Gadkari’s term as party president, the BJP had established around 40 cells to reach out to different sections of society.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, famous for her excellent oratory skills, has been entrusted with the charge of the content generation team. The group will produce literature for the party’s election campaign. In her team, Swaraj will have the support of BJP vice-presidents Vinay Sahasrabuddhe and Prabhat Jha. Union minister Mahesh Sharma, Lok Sabha chief whip Anurag Thakur, spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi, foreign department head Vijay Chauthaiwale, social media head Amit Malviya, and media department head Anil Baluni, Anirban Ganguly, R Balashankar and Shiv Shakti Nath Bakshi are other members of the Swaraj-led team.
Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad will lead party’s media group. The team will consist of BJP spokespersons and media department team while the Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar is set to lead the team which will conduct meetings of intellectuals.
BJP vice-president Shyam Jaju has been appointed as the head of the crucial social media panel. BJP’s IT cell plays a very crucial role in its election campaign. Its information technology wing in-charge Amit Malviya is also the part of 13-member social media committee.
Many new committees have been also formed which include, three-member Bike Rally Committee headed by Sanjiv Chaurasia, while national general secretary Arun Singh would lead the ‘Mann Ki Baat’ committee, Anil Jain would head the Kamal Jyoti committee, Avinash Rai Khanna has been made in-charge of Mera Parivar, Bhajpa Parivar committee, and Saroj Pandey has been entrusted with the responsibility of Beneficiary coordination committee.
The party has given responsibility to all its senior and important leaders with laying special emphasis on communication. It is aware of the fact that communication will be the key in the upcoming elections. The BJP hopes to come out with flying colors in the upcoming crucial Lok Sabha elections with the help of adroit and astute leadership of its ‘Dream Team’ and trump card- PM Narendra Modi.
