Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP National President JP Nadda and different senior leaders attend the Central Election Committee (CEC) assembly for the upcoming meeting ballot in Madhya Pradesh, in New Delhi.
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In indicators of early preparation for the upcoming Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, the BJP’s Central Election Committee (CEC), of which Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a member, held a evaluation assembly for these States with explicit give attention to seats the place the BJP was susceptible or the place the opposition Congress was stronger. The early CEC meet additionally signalled the BJP nationwide management’s intention to contain itself in a micro manner in strategising for these polls.
The CEC assembly was attended by Unoin Ministers Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh, and chaired by BJP president J.P. Nadda. It was additionally attended by State in-charges like Union Ministers Bhupendra Yadav, Ashwini Vaishnaw and Mansukh Mandaviya, in addition to Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan, Madhya Pradesh BJP chief V.D. Sharma and former Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, Raman Singh.
The get together’s determination to carry the assembly so early — the CEC often meets solely after ballot dates are introduced — underlines the importance it has hooked up to 5 State elections — Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Telangana and Mizoram — with related conferences being lined up for States which were not noted of this spherical. These States are thought-about particularly necessary as they’re the final spherical of Assembly polls earlier than the Lok Sabha polls subsequent yr.
Grades of seats
Sources on the assembly confirmed that the BJP has graded seats in phrases of previous electoral document and energy of get together organisation there. “For example, an ‘A’ category seat is where the party [BJP] has been winning consistently, ‘B’ category seats are those that have been lost once or twice in the past, ‘C’ category seats are those where the party has lost more than twice and ‘D’ category seats are those never won by the BJP,” mentioned a senior chief. For Chhattisgarh, sources mentioned, the BJP has determined to arrange a panel for assessing candidates for 27 seats, 22 of ‘C’ class and 5 belonging to ‘D’ class.
In 2018, the BJP had misplaced all of the Assembly polls, with losses in the Hindi-speaking belt, a big catchment space for the get together being notably hurtful to the get together.