Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president J.P. Nadda held a closed door meeting with leaders of the Rajasthan unit of the party, including former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, State unit chief Satish Poonia, and Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Shekhawat, on Tuesday, with the underlying message that the party needed to pull together under the principle of collective leadership in the run up to the Assembly polls in the State in 2023.
The meeting, which began mid-morning and ended by 1 p.m. in the afternoon, and was largely about avoiding faction fights and talk of who would be projected as the party’s face in the polls, and instead concentrate on strengthening the party organisation. A senior leader present at the meeting said that the recently concluded Assembly polls, where the BJP returned to power in Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Manipur and Uttarakhand, loomed over the meeting, with the message being that “Modi- ji paryapt hain” (Modi is enough) as the face to be projected for now.
The BJP’s general secretary (organisation) B.L. Santhosh and the State unit’s organisational secretary Chandra Shekhar were also present in the meeting held at Mr. Nadda’s residence.
