Monday, 05 October 2020 | PNS | Dehradun
Party’s state executive to be announced within three days
The Bharatiya Janata Party state executive and cells will be announced within the next three days. This and other decisions were taken in the BJP Uttarakhand core committee meeting presided over by the party’s state chief Banshidhar Bhagat on Sunday. The BJP national joint general secretary (organisation) Shiv Prakash, chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, Union Education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ and state general secretary (organisation) Ajey Kumar and other members of the core committee were present in the meeting.
Addressing the media after the meeting, Bhagat said that party’s state executive and cells will be announced within the next three days. He informed that the foundation laying ceremony for the new state office of the BJP will be presided over by the party’s national president JP Nadda virtually on October 17. Events will be held in Dehradun and Delhi for this purpose. Along with Bhagat, the CM, ministers, MPs and office bearers of the party will be present on the occasion.
Further, a day-long training of district coordination committees’ members will be held in Dehradun on October 16. Responding to a query, the BJP state president said that clear instructions were issued in the meeting that if any minister, MLA or office bearer has any issue, the same should first be raised in the party forum and not in any other place. Violation of this direction will be viewed as a violation of the party discipline.Regarding the case of MLA Puran Fartyal, he said that MPs Ajay Bhatt and Ajay Tamta will be talking to him. Bhagat further said that ministers in-charge of districts have been told to visit their districts at least once a month and spend the night there. They have also been told to attend the district coordination committee meetings and interact with party workers before holding administrative meetings.
MPs Ajay Bhatt, Rajya Laxmi Shah, Ajay Tamta, Teerath Singh Rawat, cabinet minister Madan Kaushik, State minister Dhan Singh Rawat, general secretary Rajendra Bhandari and others were also present in the core committee meeting.
