Ahead of next year’s parliamentary and State polls, the ruling BJP has stepped up preparations to retain all the 10 Lok Sabha seats and return to power in Haryana. State party president Om Prakash Dhankar spoke about efforts to go to the polls with the backing of a strong organisational set-up, the future of its alliance with the Jannayak Janta Party (JJP), and the political repercussions of the farmers’ movement. Edited excerpts:
How has the party’s organisational set-up changed since you were appointed the State BJP president in July 2020?
When I joined the BJP in 1996, the party had organisational units at the State and district levels. The mandals were set up only in urban areas and their meetings were not held on a regular basis. Today, we can organise a meeting of office-bearers of 311 mandals in a day. Shakti Kendra, comprising five booths, is a reality and we have 4,400 well-organised units. We are now appointing panna pramukhs (person in charge of a page in the electoral rolls) and the process will be completed by next month. We will then have information on the name, caste, mobile number and profession of around five lakh workers on the party’s Saral app.
