It is inevitable
that by today evening will see the BJP
back in power in Madhya Pradesh. It will
be a major challenge for Shivraj Singh to not only get back to power but to stay
on in power as his continuance is dependent on the results of the 24 bye-elections
that will have to be filled within the next 6 months to full the Assembly vacancies
caused by the 22 resignations and 2 earlier vacancies.
In my view, this is what the priorities
of the new BJP Government should be :
1. Declare that its first and topmost priority is securing the State against
the onset of Corona Virus, on which MP has been extremely fortunate and lucky
so far. For this the following steps need to be taken :
a) Immediately
stop all Bus Services from out of State into entering MP till March 31.
b) Initiate
fumigation and disinfecting of all Public places like – Bus Stands, Railway
Stations, hospitals, Municipal Offices District
and High Courts, Prisons, Tourist Spots
c) Request
all PSUs to shut down operations till March 31 and re-open in phases, thereafter, based on the situation prevailing till then.
d) Ask
all Schools to promote students to the next Class for Classes 1 to 8 without
any Final, year-end Exams. This will not
only prevent congregation of students for the examination but also relieve
students and parents alike of mental anxiety and tension which is also very
important in this time of crises.
e) Order
all Cinema Halls and Air – Conditioned Malls Closed till March 31, 2020.
f) Order
all other shops to be open only on alternative days.
g) Issue
immediate appeal to all people to follow the appeal of the PM to ensure that
1. the
young (below 10) and the elderly (above 65) do not come out of their houses for
the next 2 week’s
2. Sunday’s
Janata Curfew should be made a resounding success – be careful to strongly
APPEAL but not threaten at all ; especially caution your over-enthusiastic
Ministers and party Karyakartas to not make any threatening kind of statements
on this matter.
h) Set
up a Chief Minister’s Corona Virus Protection Fund and ask for generous
donation from Industries and the common citizen. This should be a distinctly separate fund and
not mixed up with the Consolidated Fun d nor used for any other purpose – such separation and integrity of deployment is extremely important.
i) Ask
all Pharma Industries in the State to either donate palliative medicines or
Testing Kits.
j) Install
and Increase CORONA Testing facility in every District.
k) All
expenses incurred by Companies and donations given by industry/individuals
should be made a tax free expense.
2. Make a special overture and effort to woo the farming community who had
felt neglected and cheated by your previous administration and which led to your defeat. NO matter that the truth is different, but the
perception was clearly of dissatisfaction.
Hence the CM, Finance Minister and Food & Agriculture
Minister should undertake a whirlwind tour of the entire state to meet with
farmer’s bodies, co-operatives to give them a personal hearing, understand what
is causing them difficulty / heartburn and try to expeditiously address these
concerns.
This should be done on priority, and with a sense of urgency, particularly in matters of payment of Fasal
Bema Yojana and Kisan Samman Yojana.
In case of the latter, use the BJP party members to ensure 100 %
registration of eligible farmers so that they receive their first instalment of
Rs. 2,000/- at the earliest.
3. Announce and implement an urgent budget for upgrading of infrastructure in the following 3 areas where maximum number of common citizens, particularly
form the lower economic strata come ;
a) Bus
Stands
b) Municipal
Hospitals and
c) District
Courts
The
infrastructure improvement in these areas will be very visible, and favorably impact a huge segment of the regularly
voting population, which only can
ensure your continuance in power.
4. Immediately reverse all transfer and appointment decision of the
Kamalnath Government in the last one month – do not feel shy or hesitant. Be ruthless and reverse them immediately.
5. Similarly seek the resignation of all persons appointed by the Kamalnath
Government in various Public & Autonomous Bodies (just as they had
done) or sack them immediately ; you must
show that you are not only decisive but can be rough and tough.
Thereafter, immediately appoint or reappoint your own
persons.
6. Have a detailed and sincere dialogue with civil society of the comprising Professors/Teachers, Doctors,
Lawyers, Journalists, Retired Govt . Servants and Judges, Industrialists and
leading farmers and agriculture experts
and ask them what they think are the priorities the Government should
have for rapid development of the State.
This will give a huge and actionable “wish-list”
of what the people of the Sate want and if you act on these you will get
widespread Public Support.
Please video record all such dialogue and
broadcast it in instalments so that there is complete transparency about what
was asked and what was finally done.
7. To ensure victory in 24 bye-elections due in the next 6 months, do the following, from Day 1
a) Constitute
1000 man BJP Karyakarta teams for each constituency.
b) This
team will have the responsibility that each member visits at least 400 homes in the next 5 months i.e. 80 homes per
month i.e. 5 homes every day for 16 days in each month.
1. This
will enable 4 lakh homes to be visited in the constituency (80 homes per month
X 5 Months X 1000 Karyakartas) . Each constituency is estimated to have approx. 1 Lakh homes which means that, in the space of 5 months, each household can
be visited 4 times by this team to seek votes for the election. It is this JAN SAMPARK
that will win you the election, not merely the JAN SABHAS, of which BJP is rather fond of.
2. Remember, massive JAN SABHAS only gets you good
media coverage ; it is only the JAN SAMPARK at the person-to –person level
that will get you the votes.
3. So
do not make the mistake of the last election of believing that if Narendra
Modi, Amit Shah and a few Central leaders come and hold Road Shows and big
public meetings you will win the elections ;
time
and again this had been proved to be wrong (see Rajasthan , MP,
Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, & Delhi)
4. The
Central leadership can only give you strength and morale boost – the foundational
solidity of your efforts can only come if your Karyakartas carry out a
rigorous, planned and structured “Jan
Sampark” to meet each and every
potential voter, to knock on each and
every door, to hear the complaints, woes
and expectations of each and every family.
5. Such
close touch with the voter will give you a lot of strength in not only getting
their support but in also calling upon them to come out and vote.
hemendra k. varma
mumbai
20th March 2020
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