New Delhi: BharatiyaJanata Party president Amit Shah is so busy occupied in making strategy for 2019 LokSabha elections that he fails to show up for International Yoga Day in Delhi while Prime minister NarendraModialong with his 69 ministerial colleagues participated in it.
On being asked a senior BJP leader on condition of annonimity said that this must not be looked at if he was making a distance from it rather he was too busy with his meeting which were pre-decided. He had to meet leaders from the BJP and other affiliate organisations.
The BJP president is in Delhi for two days before he goes to Jammu and Kashmir. Sources said that Shah was also invited to participate in a programme at Kota in which Rajasthan chief minister VasundharaRaje and Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev were supposed to participate but he did not give his assent. However, the venue where Shah was supposed to participate as chief guest was attended by BJP national general secretary (organisations) Ram Lal, general secretary Arun Singh, Union minister Dr Harsh Vardhan, national spokesperson SambitPatra, media cell co-convener SambitPatra and headquarters in-charge MahendraPandey.
The party President appears to be completely in elections mode with back to back meetings in Delhi where he had a meeting with state leaders on June 20. On June 21, he met with office-bearers of BharatiyaMajdoorSangh.
In the evening he had met such 350 tech savvy BJP workers who have at least 10000 followers on social media. A late evening meeting is scheduled with BJP SC Morcha, core group of Delhi BJP and all the seven MPs of Delhi. Sources informed that the BJP president will be meeting leaders of Haryana on June 22 at Haryana Bhawan in Delhi where performance evaluation of all BJP MP will be done by the party's monitoring committee. In this meeting national general secretary (organisation) Ram Lal, general secretary Anil Jain, Haryana CM ManoharLal, state BJP president SubhashBarala and state general secretary (organisation) Suresh Bhatt and BJP leader Krishna Pal Gurjar besides state cabinet ministers will be present. The BJP president will be visiting Jammu to participate in BalidanDiwanprogrammeorganised by the state BJP where too the party president will have election related meetings with the BJP, the RSS and VHP leaders. Amit Shah will be accompanied by ShyamaPrashad Mukherjee Foundation chairman DrAnirbanGanguly.
The party president will reach Dehradun on June 24, where he will meet party MPs, MLAs, state office-bearers, district presidents and morcha and cell leaders for LokSabha elections and organisationalprogrammes in mind. Shah also has plans to visit his home state Gujarat on June 25-26 to participate in a programme to commemorate emergency in Ahmedabad that will be observed as Black Day. He will participate in ChintanShivir and facilitate such people on June 26 under MisaWasiprogramme who were arrested under MISA Law.
The party president will be in West Bengal on June 27-28 to address a rally in Purulia and he has plans to meet family members of the BJP workers killed by the TMC workers in the Purulia districts but sources informed that permission has not so far been granted by the state government.