Kolkata:Keeping in mind the 2024 general elections, the BJP leadership in West Bengal has prepared a blueprint to boost the morale of the grassroots-level party workers, who are presently not very upbeat following the results of the Assembly elections. The party has decided to set up booth level WhatsApp groups to remain in touch with ground workers and follow up on all issues arising in the nook and corner of the state, hoping that a straight dialogue between workers and leaders will bridge many gaps.
Party sources said that the senior BJP leaders will directly interact with the grassroots level workers and for that purpose special workshops for the workers will be held in every district from July onwards. “Through this workshop, the leaders will highlight the success of the party in the state during the last few years and this will boost the morale of the party workers. We are coming out with a short film on this matter, which will be screened at the workshops,” a senior party leader told ETV Bharat.
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He also said that soon after the COVID-19 situation gets normalized there will be elections for several municipal corporations and municipalities in the state. “We aim to give Trinamool a tough fight in these elections as well and in this attempt, these workshops will play a key role,” he said.
Already, the state BJP president, Dilip Ghosh and leader of the opposition, Suvendu Adhikari have started giving virtual messages to the party workers. “We have set up booth-level WhatsApp Groups. We are giving messages to our workers that unless we can give a tough fight to Trinamool in the municipal corporation and municipality polls, our attempts to be in power in West Bengal will remain a distant dream,” he said.
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Soon after the Assembly polls debacle, there had been a growing tendency among a section of the BJP leaders and workers to shift to Trinamool Congress camp. So the senior BJP leaders are directly calling the party workers and assuring them of all sorts of legal assistance. Control rooms have already been opened at BJP’s Hastings office in Kolkata as well as in all the district offices of the party. “Through these control rooms the leaders are interacting with the grassroots level workers,” the party leader said.
At the same time a special team of lawyers, which will be headed by the BJP's lawyer-leader Priyanka Tibrewal, has been set up for legal assistance purpose. “This team of lawyers are visiting different police stations in the state to get the case histories of those party workers who had been framed since the results were announced,” the party leader said.
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Separate district-level teams, with the party MPs and MLAs, are also being constituted to have first-hand information about the party workers who had allegedly become victims of post-poll violence. Even some of them are being provided with financial assistance. The party will provide one-time financial assistance of Rs 5,00,000 to the families of those party workers who were allegedly killed in post-poll violence. The whole-timers in BJP are also being provided with a monthly stipend of Rs 6,000.
According to BJP’s state general secretary, Sayantan Basu, BJP dreamt of coming to power in West Bengal through its dedicated party workers. But that dream has not been fulfilled. So it is the duty of the party now to boost their morale. We are just waiting for the lockdown in the state to be over and we will go all-out against Trinamool Congress and the state government,” he said.
