Madhya Pradesh BJP To Fight Anti-Incumbency, Internal Rift With Cluster Bombing Plan

BHOPAL: The BJP's central leadership, which has taken full control of the Assembly poll campaigning in Madhya Pradesh, is set to test a well-strategised political 'cluster bombing' operation to retain power in the state. For executing its plan ahead of the elections, the party's central leadership is deploying as many as 230 legislators from neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, and Maharashtra, as well as from Bihar. Each legislator will be deployed in one particular assembly constituency of Madhya Pradesh to execute the task assigned by the party high command.

All these 230 BJP legislators reached the state capital Bhopal on Saturday and for the next 24 hours, they will be made familiar with the particular assembly constituency to which they have been assigned. Subsequently, they will move to the respective constituencies to execute the task assigned to them by the party's Central Election Committee (CEC) and for the next one week, they all will be meeting with local party leaders, workers as well as people to prepare a detailed "report card" of each of the 230

p is deploying as many as 230 legislators from neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, and Maharashtra, as well as from Bihar. Each legislator will be deployed in one particular assembly constituency of Madhya Pradesh to execute the task assigned by the party high command.

All these 230 BJP legislators reached the state capital Bhopal on Saturday and for the next 24 hours, they will be made familiar with the particular assembly constituency to which they have been assigned. Subsequently, they will move to the respective constituencies to execute the task assigned to them by the party's Central Election Committee (CEC) and for the next one week, they all will be meeting with local party leaders, workers as well as people to prepare a detailed "report card" of each of the 230 Assembly seats in the state.

Khajuraho Lok Sabha MP and state BJP president V.D. Sharma briefing the media on Saturday said: "Deployment of 230 MLAs from four states is a part of the BJP's new strategy and all these legislators will utilise their experiences for the next seven days to execute the plan. Our central leadership and the sangthan (organisation) have made an elaborate plan for it. We all believe that our efforts will be fruitful in view of assembly elections.”

A Delhi-based senior journalist says that the central BJP leadership has come out with 'political cluster bombing', knowing that the anti-incumbency, internal rifts and face-fatigue of state's longest-serving Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan upto some extent is giving an edge to the Congress.