NEW DELHI: With an eye on the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the Delhi unit of BJP plans to ramp up its connect with the people by organising foot marches. Party MPs and senior functionaries have also been instructed to have a greater interaction with the public at the booth level.This was the key takeaway of BJP’s two-day state executive meeting, which concluded on Saturday.A senior functionary said senior leaders, including MPs and party office bearers, would take part in the foot marches in February and March. “The leaders will also be covering the booths on two-wheelers,” he said. There are over 13,000 booths in Delhi. BJP has bagged all the seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi in the past two general elections.Party insiders said that the foot marches were also being pitched as a response to Congress’ Delhi unit holding the “hath se hath jodo yatra”, a two-month campaign to reach out to every household of Delhi.The Delhi leg of senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s “Bharat Jodo Yatra” had seen a rousing welcome in the capital. “While Congress is weak at the state and MCD levels, at the national level, it is still the only a pan-India party; so, our strategy is also to counter them,” the party functionary said. In his address at the executive meet, BJP’s national general secretary Sunil Bansal had said that there was a need to build the image of a welfare party. “We have to increase our communication with the people, especially the poor. The people who are benefitting from the central schemes must be linked with the party’s mainstream,” he said.Bansal said the demography of Delhi was changing and the party had to connect every section of the society. The party cadres have also been told to apprise people about the projects undertaken by the central agencies. These include the Yamuna riverfront development by DDA, the construction of a 1.3-km-long Pragati Maidan tunnel and five underpasses on Mathura Road. Other projects undertaken by the Centre included giving ownership rights to people in unauthorised colonies and building expressways in and around Delhi, Bansal said
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