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Mizoram to be freed from Congress’ grip in 2018: Ram Madhav
BJP chief Amit Shah is scheduled to attend a booth-level workers’ conference in election-bound Mizoram in August.
Even before it could open its offices in all district headquarters amidst complaints of serious fund crunch by state leadership, the BJP is confident it will wrest Mizoram from the Congress in the assembly elections this year.
“Mizoram for us is an unfinished agenda which we will be completing this election,” said Ram Madhav, BJP’s general secretary in-charge of North-East, after the state executive meeting in Aizawl on June 6.
“Mizoram is the only remaining state where the BJP is to take over the power,” said Madhav as he explained how the party’s cadres have been directed to spread the message that “Mizoram deserves better than Lalthanawla.”
Madhav said how there are corruption cases against Lalthanawla and his ministers and yet the chief minister has on-record accepted that he cannot do much about corruption. “This doesn’t only show his inefficiency but also his complicity,” Madhav said.
BJP state president JV Hluna said Mizoram has nearly 20,000 active party workers. Madhav said the party will actively start its campaign in August after the monsoons, and the target was to organise a booth-level workers’ conference in August to be attended by BJP president Amit Shah.
The BJP is yet to open its offices in all the district headquarters. “A lot of money goes in house rent for the offices in Lunglei, Saiha and Kolasib districts,” Hluna said pointing at fund crunch the party faces locally.
The academic, who has been heading the party in the state, flashed a booklet written in Mizo titled BJP and Christianity that was published to counter the Congress and Church’s offensive against the ‘Communal BJP’.
“We published one lakh booklets, each costing Rs 10. Only recently we managed to pay off the printer after much difficulty in raising the funds,” Hluna says narrating how Delhi refused to foot the bill.
Madhav, meanwhile, assured that the funds will be taken care of. “Election-bound state is always a priority,” he said.
