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BJP to establish `live contact' with people in Jharkhand

By Neena Vyas

NEW DELHI, JULY 17. Making ``live contact'' with the people over the next six months ahead of the Assembly polls in Jharkhand will be taken up as a major programme by the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is planning to project ``discrimination against Jharkhand'' by the Central Government a major poll issue.

At a meeting organised here today by the BJP president, Venkaiah Naidu, to plan for Assembly polls scheduled there early next year, some 25 central and State leaders met to review the political situation and draw up a strategy. This has become all the more important given the virtual rout suffered by the BJP in the recent Lok Sabha elections. The general secretary in-charge of the State, Rajnath Singh, said the party would give utmost importance to booth-level management. Over the next few months, workers, MLAs and other senior State leaders will establish ``live contact'' with the people with a view to telling them the positive aspects of work done by the State Government and alerting them about the negative impact of Central Government's policies.

``The Centre has recently announced a special package for Bihar. It has not given anything to Jharkhand and we see this as discrimination,'' Mr. Singh said. This would be made into a major poll plank.

The party has decided to fight the elections along with that in Bihar with the Janata Dal (United), which is also its alliance partner in Bihar. Ranged against it is a formidable alliance led by the Congress, which includes the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha and some of the Left groups.

Besides Mr. Naidu and Mr. Singh, among others who attended the meeting were Leader of the Opposition, L.K. Advani, general secretaries, Pramod Mahajan, Sanjay Joshi, Shivraj Singh Chauhan, former External Affairs Minister, Yashwant Sinha, the Chief Minister, Arjun Munda, and State unit president, Abhaykant Prasad. In the evening some senior leaders met to chalk out a programme in the light of decisions taken.

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