Brain-storming: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat will hold closed-door meetings with leaders and workers from the RSS
Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the crucial four-day brain storming session of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) ideological fountainhead Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) began on Thursday under the chairmanship of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat.
The meeting, being attended by 300 key functionaries and office-bearers of Madhya Pranta (comprising of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh) is seen as the organisation’s calculated attempt to garner maximum Parliamentary seats from these states.
Aiming high
“Though Uttar Pradesh will play the major role in forming the government, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh also matter a lot for the RSS and the BJP.
“Out of the 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh, the party had won only 10 seats in 2009. In the same elections, the party had cornered twenty-five seats (MP-16, Chhattisgarh- 9) out of the 40 seats in these two states,” a RSS functionary said.
Now, the RSS and the BJP are making a concerted effort in these two states as part of the “Mission 272+”, a plan for toppling the Congress-led UPA coalition in Delhi.
Bhagwat will hold closed-door meetings with leaders and workers from the RSS and other frontal saffron outfits from the Madhya Bharat chapter, and with some BJP office bearers.
Some of the key RSS leaders with whom Bhagwat will have consultations include BJP national vice-president and Rajya Sabha member Prabhat Jha, Rajya Sabha MP Anil Dave, state BJP organisational secretary Arvind Menon and senior RSS leader Kaptan Singh Solanki.
Menon said the four-day session will be attended by more than 300 key functionaries and office-bearers of the organisation.
Keeping in mind Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s attack on the BJP and the RSS, claiming that they do not respect women, Bhagwat will attend a women’s symposium entitled “Shakti Samvad”, including representatives of the IAS officers wife’s association and two other organisations at the polytechnic auditorium in Bhopal.
On February 23, Bhagwat will address a “pathsanchalan” (march past) in the city. After the march past, the RSS chief will address a meeting of swayamsevaks at the Model School.
Meanwhile, journalists had a tough time with the RSS workers at Laxmi Narayan College of Technology (LNCT) premises – the venue where the meet began.
The RSS workers had to request reporters not to climb the outer walls of the LNCT to cover the meet.