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Resource crunch in U.P. BJP

LUCKNOW, NOV. 4. The state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is facing an acute financial crunch, forcing the organisation to retrench some of its employees here.

According to highly-placed party sources here, the state unit's resource crunch is said to be its worst in the last one decade. ``Party leaders have been asked to control their expenditure on petrol and telephone bills,'' said a state unit leader.

He said several senior leaders have now been requested to use their personal vehicles while touring various areas for party work.

Sources claimed that the party had last month retrenched at least 12 employees, mostly working as peons, following a resource crunch.

A camp within the state unit claimed that the resource crunch was the gift of successive state unit presidents who had failed to help generate essential assistance fund (Aavshyak Sahyog Nidhi).

While the state unit was targeting to generate Rs 5 crores, it could only collect a mere Rs 60 lakhs. ``Out of this, half goes to party high command, while one-fourth is meant for district units...this way we are left with Rs 15 lakhs only,'' the leader explained.

The monthly expenditure of the state unit is about Rs 6 lakhs, while the party had recently shelled out Rs 75 lakhs for renovation of the building as per Vaastu Shastra. The project to make changes as per the Vaastu Shastra was reportedly conceived by former state unit chief Vinay Katiyar.

Some party leaders claimed that the financial crunch would affect the plans to hold meetings at grass-root levels to revamp the organisational structure after the party's dismal performance during the Lok Sabha elections and the just-held assembly by-polls.

``Now we plan to request BJP MPs and legislators from the state to help party workers travel for official work at their expenditure,'' said a leader.

UNI

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