The BJP thinktank has perceived a threat from former chief minister Ajit Jogi, who broke away from the Congress to float a regional outfit recently.
The BJP thinktank has perceived a threat from former chief minister Ajit Jogi, who broke away from the Congress to float a regional outfit recently.
The saffron party’s fear that its bid to retain power in Chhattisgarh for the fourth consecutive time in the 2018 Assembly elections in the state may be foiled was evident from the roadmap prepared for the polls. The party has mulled strategies which ensure that Mr Jogi’s Chhattisgarh Janata Congress doesn’t take off at the ground level.
“The brainstorming session of the party held at the forest resort of Baranabapara in east Chhattisgarh district of Mahasamund recently had deliberated the issue at length. The thinktank in the party believed that Mr Jogi’s new party may make a dent in some BJP bases in the coming Assembly elections in the state,” a BJP leader said on the condition of anonymity.
The two-day brainstorming session of the party ended late on Tuesday evening. The party’s poll strategies were of the view that Mr Jogi still enjoyed considerable influence over Satnamis, a dalit community which decides fates of candidates in at least 27 out of total 90 Assembly constituencies in the state.
